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Table of Contents
(Click on an
underlined section below, to go to it)
Doctrine
of How God Orchestrates Time
Associated Doc and Webpage Links
Separate Meter-maps for Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9
Greek of Eph
1:3-14 and Metered Translation
Individual
Verses: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Individual verse
Notes: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Verse 4's Note on 77 Syllables Meter Tagging
Styles
The Anaphora: eudokian epainon TempleTrio Interplay Overlap 33 sevens 45 sevens 78 sevens 94 sevens
The Assets: apolutrwsin aphesin sophia musterion proetheto prothesin proelpikotas
Pregnancy 1
Pregnancy1b Meter Meaning
Pregnancy 2 Pregnant
14 Palindromes
('Pregnancy'=
accounting precedence for the Rapture)
Paul's
Chronology Use of Meter
Chronology Chart
Church Father Hall
of Shame Conclusions Appendix II:
Diocletian's Death
Appendix I: Anaphora
Chronology 1st eudokian 2nd eudokian 3rd eudokian
1st epainon 2nd epainon 3rd epainon
Time Balance Summary epainon Bal Bible Time Distances
Year 1077s
BC/AD Balance
Quirinius
Herod Temp Trio Bal
Preface to
Ephesians 1:3-14,
Paul's
Meter of Church Time
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To
comprehend Ephesians, you must know Paul's meter from the Greek; but to know his meter, you first need to know
its underlying Doctrine of Time.
Bible Hebrew meter, which Paul uses here in Greek, conveys a doctrine
about How God Orchestrates Time.
It runs pan-Bible, so has been used for 1500 years. Undetected, by Christendom.
All prophecy is an accounting, primarily.
All the prophetical events are accounted, to 'obey' this
Doctrine's Rules. So, the Time
Rules are encoded metrically, since Israel had to memorize Scripture orally. This made the Rules, easy to remember. Hence this meter is extensively used in the
Old Testament, yet scholars don't know about it. They've debated whether OT Bible Hebrew even has
meter, for over 300 years. They can't
discern that meter, since they impose Western ideas of poetry meter, on
the Bible text.
Most
of the scholars involved in the debate over Hebrew meter, are preterists and
Replacement Theologians. So it's not to
their advantage, to 'find' a meter which disproves preterism, which disproves
Replacement Theology, since both 'doctrines' cut out the Jews from God's
Promises; just like Harold Camping did recently, his Mad-Magazine numbers
loudly and laughably predicting the world's end on May 21-now-October 21, 2011. The world, justifiably snickers. Bible is a casualty. Bible looks Bad. Not fair.
For
God's Prophecy concerns the JEWs, and we Church weren't supposed to be here,
Romans 11. We got 'grafted in', only because Israel
rejected Christ and He contracted to BUILD CHURCH, starting in Matthew
16:18, specifically asking for it per Father's Discretion (hence Rapture is pre-Trib and cannot be
predicted),
in John 17:17-26.
Little
wonder then, that 'scholars' debate what even constitutes a syllable, in
Hebrew. Yet every Jew has always
known: consonant to consonant,
one syllable. The next consonant begins the next syllable,
and sometimes also ends the prior syllable; certain consonant combinations
unite into one syllable. So you
only concern yourself with vowel elision, a stringing-together of sound which
occurs in every language; and in Hebrew, also the waw might be elided (nowadays called vav). No
need to play games with the text, no artificial-sounding recitation as in
today's Judaism (harsh
Sephardic tones),
just read the text. Which in writing, is easy to parse. No confusion.
Once Christendom appreciates God's
rhetorical device of metering Time to match verse content, every denomination
will want to retool its ideas of hermeneutics, textual criticism, and above all,
eschatology. So obviously, much up-front explanation is
required; for much debate will
justifiably ensue.
No
one likes hearing he's been remiss in his Bible understanding, i.e., the fact
that everyone accounts years as lunar, but BIBLE NEVER DOES. So Christendom as well as Judaism, constantly
get Bible's dates wrong; Bible doesn't seem to balance, and oh you must just
take it on faith, as if we're doing God a favor. Bible only uses solar years, but we use
lunar, then claim Bible wrong, obtuse, or (yikes!) "inscrutable"! Camping played games on Bible math. He's not alone. Scholars routinely ignore the EXTRA SEVEN
YEARS in Daniel 9, claiming they are lunar years. NO!
On
the other hand, we all like hearing our faith in Bible, vindicated. That's another certain conclusion, in what
follows. God is Trustworthy. He did preserve His Word. You can rely on it, and once you see how
God proves He orchestrated HISTORY YOU CAN TEST, you'll feel MUCH better
about Bible's Divinity.
By
the way, you needn't credit 'brainout' for this material; nor did I use anything copyrighted, to derive
it. I think the point of 'my' getting
it, was to prove a) even a brainout can know this, and b) to save
scholars and pastors, vetting time.
For I know this material, only because I asked God for Bible proof
of a doctrine my pastor long taught:
that God uses Believers To Buy
Time. [Christendom generally
calls this 'salt of the earth'.] He
called it 'Blessing by Association', but he didn't know there were
explicit AMOUNTS of Time. I learned
that, when sleuthing to see what he meant by 'Buying Time.'
So if YOU also come
to see its Biblical validity, YOU own it.
For it's BIBLE's data, not 'brainout's'.
Different 'B'. I
know this is controversial material, and yet it's mostly correct. So each day I throw stones at it; I hope you
will, too. Obviously to the extent
correct, it's of GOD, not 'brainout'.
And that's the ONLY 'B', which matters.
So I hope you'll tell me, where you find my errors.
Preface, How God Constructs
Time
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So Bible
does indeed use meter,
to Account for Time.
Because, Israel was on a SCHEDULE God set up at Adam's Fall. For the rhetorical-style uses of meter, click here for the Meter Notes' section, read bullets prior to Note A.
This document will
show how Paul employs meter; especially, how he 'tags' specific passages metrically
in Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, and Daniel 9. Thus you gain precise
certitude on how to read and interpret, Ephesians. And you know something else: everyone used to
be familiar with these Rules, just as we know our abcs.
So what is this Doctrine of How God
Orchestrates Time? Briefly, it goes like
this:
[Extensive documentation of what follows is in
the Video and
Webpage links pages of this
Preface.]
o Time is a LOAN. So it must be 'paid' by someone voting for
God. Else, TIME ENDS.
o This LOAN is in
specific units, each with its own voting 'audience' and purpose.
o First Unit, a 490, during which at
least ONE BELIEVER must spiritually SUPERMATURE. Else, Time Ends. Per
Bible, Adam was the first to supermature, as indicated by the 'present' of his
son Seth (Appointed-to-Carry-the-Name).
Genesis 5 is a roster of those who Voted and Supermatured. That's its primary purpose, to Track Time
Grants Being Met. The sons' births are TIMED;
and when you crunch the math, you learn that, for example, there were
490 years between Seth's birth and Enoch's, showing that Jared also
supermatured at the last minute. (Nerd Note: Age rounding
means that there might be a 1-2 year variance in the math.) Same 490, between the births of Shem and
Isaac.
o Second Unit is a 70, following
the 490
if it successfully completed
(someone
supermatured during that Unit). During this 70, BELIEVERS EN MASSE
must Vote To Learn God. The 'mass', can
be as small as one (i.e., Noah, who voted
during his own 70). Else, Time Ends for those who didn't
vote. (Hence the Flood.)
o
Third Unit, is another 490, following
the 70,
if the latter successfully completed. Again,
at least One Believer must spiritually supermature. Else, Time Ends.
o Unit Four, the Sum: 1050 (490+70+490), constitutes
God's Basic 'house' of Time. It 'funds'
the ability of unbelievers to Vote To Be Saved. Gospel
is always the same in any time period: you BELIEVE in the Future Savior Who
Will Pay For Your Sins (aka
Messiah, in Hebrew): and thus
are saved from Hell and to Heaven.. forever.
o
So
notice Unit Four, the 1050 is also constructed
of 50's: there are 21 of them. So, 1000+50 constitutes twenty 50's, plus
one. (Hence the term 'millennium' in a generic
sense. Really, 1000+50, not 1000. But in shorthand, 1000.)
o So Unit Five, is a
special unbeliever-voting window during the last 50 years of the 1050. Notice how it piggybacks onto the last 50
years of the last 490,
thus signifying that unbeliever votes depend on believers, voting. (Nerd Note: this is precedence for the
sabbatical years, for Pentecost and
Jubilee, covered here passim.)
o
So the 1000 is a 'civilization' unit, with a '50' at the
end; so the 'house' of 1050 contains both
believers and unbelievers, each with a TIME promise and a TIME warning, if they
don't vote for God.
o
TIME ENDS for those who don't vote for
God. That's the basic
point, so is precedence for the sudden-death nature of the Rapture;
which Paul will stress, in this passage.
o
For the Millennium was predicted to arrive in the year
4200 from Adam's Fall,
ever since the Exodus (and
maybe prior, I can't yet prove what prior knowledge, of a 2nd 2100). The first two units ran 2100 years, for the
Gentiles. The second 2100 was for the
Jews. Jews today even know this, but
they account 2000 each, not 2100.
And they use a bad calendar, patterned after the Seder Olam Rabbah. Google on that term.
o
Messiah was SCHEDULED to die 57 years before the end of
the second 2100; hence when the Jews rejected Him, there
was no more time left. There was no more time left, because Abraham matured
EARLY, so that 57 was 'owed' the Gentiles. (Again, this was encoded into the Mosaic Law
as Passover+Pentecost, Jubilee+Trib, mirrors.)
Preface, How God Constructs
Time, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1
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o
Technically, Abraham
supermatured in the very year that Noah's 490-year Time Grant, ran
out. That was year 2046 from Adam. Rounded, the number is 54 (2100-2046). [Really, it's 53.5 years. An extra 3.5-year piece is tacked on,
probably precedented from Noah, who entered the Ark 57 days after his
birthday. I'm not yet sure why that is
precedent.]
o
So there is no more time left to Israel, if she doesn't
accept Messiah when He comes On Time. [This might explain the origin of
preterism. If one only looks at the fact
Israel ran out of time, one can falsely conclude that the remainder 'passed on'
to Church. But Bible's promises to
Abraham, Moses, David are UNCONDITIONAL, so are still future. The Last David, inherited them all, Isaiah
53:12. So there is a future for Israel, which Church TIES to, and fronts; ergo, the unpredictable pre-Trib Rapture.]
o
All this was recorded in the meter of Psalm 90; Isaiah 53 picked up the meter
timeline where Moses left off;
Isaiah updated the Advent timeline, since David had been born and died; now everyone knew when Messiah had to be born:
o
1000 years after David's consolidated Kingship, which was (per Bible), 1004 bc.
o
So
then Messiah was SCHEDULED to have the same lifetime as David's total
rulership, 40 years.
o
So
then He would have died in 37AD, had the Jews accepted Him. That was, year 4143 from Adam's Fall. Rule of 57 would be met.
o
So when the First Temple went down, that Schedule
was now in breach. Daniel knew
the meter, and thus metered his own prayer in Daniel 9, timing
the date he prayed it, to the beginning of the last missed sabbatical year,
again shown in his meter.
o
Daniel's metered prayer asked for the specific units
of Time God grants (God
replying also in meter, as well as explicit text), in Daniel
9:24-26. [The '50' is left out,
since it's not Jewish time. So
it's in ellipsis, between Daniel 9:26 and 9:27.]
o
So there were TWO sevens, 14 -- a subunit
depicting Time In Breach, Loss of Time due to Temple Down,
which Moses had warned of, metrically;
which Isaiah metrically doubled (two positives offsetting the negative). As we'll see in the Ephesians passage, Paul
will ape both Moses' and Isaiah's usage, in a type of antiphony showing the Church
will be used as the Time Bridge to fulfill the 14.
o
One seven, was embedded in the 62nd week; and the
other was the Tribulation, in Daniel 9:27.
Both were to play, respectively in and due to Messiah's
'time' (front-and-back
like 7-day-pre-Flood warning to Noah, Messiah's death kicking off the final
57);
since Israel went overbudget, so to speak, in Temple Reconstruction delay (21 years instead of
seven, between 537BC and 516BC).
o
So when Christ came and Israel rejected Him, He ended
up dying seven years earlier, still in the 62nd week of Daniel
9:26. So that 'week', didn't complete.
[We
don't notice that, because we ASSume a lunar accounting. So the preterist thinks that Daniel 9:27 is
the only 7. So too, the
Dispensationalist. Not so!] This hanging extra 7, was yet future at
the time Paul wrote, and would be 'spent' on taking down the Temple under
Titus, 64-70AD. Everyone expected that,
since Daniel 9:26 is on Temple Down.
o Accordingly,
the Christ knew that; so before He died,
He Inaugurated Church To Continue Time for no set AMOUNT of Time,
Matt16:18. John 17:17-23 shows It's Up To Father,
How Many FUTURE SOULS Christ Should 'Fund', On The Cross.
o
As a result, Time is in a 'bubble'
of Daniel 9:26, the '62nd week', a 434, leaving 56 to finish the 490.
o So,
Paul's meter sums 434, to display We Church
Are The Time Bridge of History. [Personal note: I wish my pastor were alive
to see this. All during his ministry he
taught that Church was the Time Bridge, especially when exegeting Ephesians for
us in daily Bible class, for seven whopping years! He didn't know this meter,
or I'm sure he'd have taught it. He
taught it for free. So I'm publishing
this material for free. Anonymously, so
anyone can claim it as their own.]
Preface, Video Playlists
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As a result, I've made many videos on
God's Time Rules and on the passages Paul uses, to show their meter. These videos are designed to acquaint the
viewer with the Rules you'll see Paul use in the next section, and to
demonstrate how their meter is designed to show how God met those Rules -- or, conversely,
violated by man. The video series thus
far are unfinished, and are categorized into five playlists:
Psalm
90:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FF2856603C945631 Shows how Psalm 90 is
structured as the Meter of Time, Adam through Millennium.
Isaiah
53 Meter Hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8523934356BE4BDC Journal-type videos on how I learned that no
words were missing in Isaiah 53's Hebrew, and what meter structure I
found. This was how I learned the meter
you're about to see in this document.
10
GGS (Greek
Geek Stuff): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL5D3F5A2E85CE65CC
Introduction
to Eph1 use of Hebrew meter but Greek words;
this document's contents will eventually be shown in videos, here. This playlist dovetails with Psalm 90
playlist Episode 18 and following. It
includes other NT metered passages, like the Magnificat: click here,
for only
the Magnificat.
10
YMH (Yapping
Most High): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLB73D9DA02D729857 Jewish dispensationalism compared with God's
1050-year 'house' of Time, primer videos.
Since at least Rambam (Maimonides), Jewish Dispensationalism claims God
Orchestrates Time to run in 2000-year units.
That's close to the Biblical description. (Really 2100 years for the goyim;
2100 years for the Jews; and then Messiah was supposed to Come, which He did.) Since their calendar is off, Jews expect Messiah
to arrive in their Year 6000, but their calendar is 346 years short of
history, and many Jews know that. (Year 2011 they call Year 5771, but it's
really the 6117th year from Adam's Fall.
Sometime during the Hasmonean period, or at least by Josephus' day,
someone took the Seder Olam Rabbah and made it into a historical
calendar, even though everyone knew the makers of the SOB had cut OUT years,
like those under the Persian kings. For
the SOB was designed to keep track of PROMISE TIME, which they didn't reckon as
consecutive time. You can research this
cutting-out, on the internet.)
Genesis
Exegesis:
Genesis
5 begats introduce God's Orchestration-of-Time doctrine. Start in Episode 8c1, where I cover how to
use the GeneYrs.xls timeline (see next page): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB5BE9F40D2918FB
.
How
God Constructs Time: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32D5DBC20BF4163F
General orientational videos on the doctrine,
samples from the above playlists. Of
these, the "Pass the Salt" video pair are the most important. The 'Companion' Pass the Salt has additional
videos in its description, tracing the voting periods from Adam, forward.
Before
the videos, I wrote webpages and documents on God's Rules for Time. I learned the rules first, back in May 2004,
from Daniel 9's text; only by accident (yeah, right), when sleuthing whether
Isaiah 53 had missing words, did I find the meter pattern (2008). So beginning with Isaiah 53 (2008), then
Psalm 90 (2009), then Daniel 9 (2010) and here Ephesians 1 (Christmas 2010),
the current and future videos focus on these Bible passages and meter uses, so you
can see how the Bible conveys this doctrine.
Once you see the meter pattern, you should find it in any
prophetic OT passage you choose.
Other NT passages also use the same meter, like Philippians 3:14 (a Rapture passage), Hebrews 11:1 (a
whole chapter on
Accounting-for-the-Rapture).
So look for the meter pattern in the NT, as
well.
Again,
folks in Paul's day and prior, learned these Time Rules as we learn our
ABC's. This was basic theology, to
them. Daniel, for example, was a
teenager when taken hostage to Babylon.
Daniel 9 is in meter, accounting the TIME of Israel's kings, playing off
specific sections of Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53 via their syllable counts. God's reply to Daniel is also metered; the
explicit numbers in Daniel 9:24-26, mirror Daniel's meter. Thus you know why Daniel didn't ask
questions, though every other converse with Gabriel, ended with Daniel
being surprised.
So
the documents that follow, largely predate the videos. I apologize for the bits-and-pieces nature of
the analysis, but I publish it as I learn it.
It's not fair to delay or keep this information quiet.
Preface, Webpages and
Documents Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1
2
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Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
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o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeterCharacs.doc is the latest update
on the Meter Rules. All further refinements of the
Meter Rules will be codified there.
So far, it's a short (16-page),
updated diagnostic of 30 identifiable characteristics in Bible Hebrew
and Greek meter, plus troubleshooting tips.
You can use it to test any passage in Bible for meter. Included in the doc, are hints on how to find
such passages; plus (passim), a tentative shortlist of them.
o
Main
webpage on How God Orchestrates Time: http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm. Has all videos, too.
o
Next,
brainoutFAQ: http://www.brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6. Read it through 6b. Shorter display of the Biblicity of Bible
dates used in Mirroring.htm and GeneYrs.xls.
o
Timeline From Adam forward:
http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls. Shows how God's Rules for Time affect history
both in Bible and post-Bible. All worksheet dates
are taken from Bible; no astrology, astronomy, or extra-Biblical 'sources'. Just count the dates as Bible gives them, and
be sure to count in SOLAR YEARS. Lunar
accounting is a Jewish convention; but
Bible's calendar is always based on BIRTHDAYS, from Adam forward; so is always
solar; God bid Israel use a solar year,
Exodus 12. So the worksheet Col G (in
yellow) dates tally to Bible. (Our BC/AD dates are
sometimes 3 years off, which timeline also reflects. You can't fix it, by moving the timeline up
three years. There are two self-cancelling
errors in our calendars; that's why SOME of our BC/AD dates are right; some
chronologers only make one or the other, error.
Bible's timeline is self-auditing, so I'll eventually find where those
errors are located.)
o
Backup
Timeline Explanation for
GeneYrs.xls and Mirroring.htm: http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc. That Word document briefly explains the
scholar errors, i.e., human king's decree in Daniel 9:25; lunar years; ignoring 1Kings
6:1 on David's death age (77), and instead preferring Josephus,
etc. It also goes into the accounting
relationship between 70 and 50 (on page 15 of TenWays), vital to how Paul
crafts and 'nests' his own meter.
o
Another
backup, showing we
can know from BIBLE, exactly when the Lord was born and died, and that
between His Arrest and Crucifixion, there were FOUR DAYS, not one: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm .
Bible documentation there is
extensive, and will take you months to vet; for God designed Israel's calendar
around the Christ, just as Hebrews 1:2 says, in Greek (mistranslated).
There's really no excuse for our centuries of confusion.
o
Exodus
backup, how the
BIBLE's date (1440 bc) obviously
dovetails with history we know: http://www.brainout.net/Exodate.htm .
o
Another
backup, showing the Noahic Flood timeline;
Bible writers use the LXX, not the BHS dates.
Paul here relies on you knowing the LXX chronology, and tags his meter
to it. So here's that chronology: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc .
The pdf copy: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.pdf
o
Harold
Camping misused Bible
to craft his Doomsday dates; so, he used the wrong Flood dates, even. If you're
interested, I refuted his calculations here: http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes1.doc
and http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes2.doc
. I
couldn't have done it so well if I didn't know the meter. What attracted people to Camping was his
alleged precision with Bible timelines.
Well, the REAL Bible's precision makes his fake timeline look like the
LXX begats' bungling, in Genesis 5!
o
God's
Play of History Hebrew Meter style
and integration among Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9:4-26 and Eph
1:3-14: http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc ; next, http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.pdf is the pdf conversion.
o Psalm 90
o
http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.pdf (with LXX and NASB translation as well as
Bibleworks' 5 BHS text)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.rtf
o
http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Parsed.pdf (meter map of Psalm 90 with explanation and
notes, parsing and metered translation)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc (original doc used to create the
Ps90Parsed.pdf)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.pdf (map showing the palindromic nature of
Moses' meter)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.tif (original scan from which pdf was made)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf (map of how Judges tracks to Psalm 90's
meter)
Preface, Webpages and
Documents, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1
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o Isaiah 53
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.pdf (meter parsing map)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Map.jpg (meter map showing patterns and balancing)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53MeterTransInEnglishWide.doc (metered-to-Hebrew, English translation)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53.RTF
(original sleuthing on whether Isaiah 53 had missing words; has outdated
parsing +LXX)
o Daniel 9
o
http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.pdf (meter map of Daniel 9 with notes, no
translation provided)
o
http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF (same, used to create the pdf)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf
(shocking meter in Daniel 9:24-27, no translation; God stresses the 14!)
o
See
also Footnote E of
http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc
. It extensively documents
Daniel's use of meter to track Israel's history and craft the 490 he
REQUESTS from God, syllable by syllable, with cross-references to the
specific Kings and Chronicles passages, Daniel has in mind when he
talks. Will change how you read, Daniel
9. Very shocking and witty. A copy of Footnote E now resides also in
the DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerParsed documents.
o Ephesians 1
o
http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf (comprehensive proof of Paul's meter mapping
to Ps90, Isa53, Daniel 9, plus metered translation)
o
http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (this
document, used to create the REPARSED.pdf)
Mary's Magnificat
o
In
2012, while making the Synoptic videos
to prove Mark's Gospel is third,
not first: I was nonplussed to find out the Magnificat was metered. Her meter and time tracks, are easily as
sophisticated, as Daniel's. Click here
for videos on her meter. Word doc there
used: http://www.brainout.net/MagnificatMeterDraft2.doc . As
usual, the NT text is pasted from BibleWorks NA27 aka UBS4, unaltered.
o
Last
video in that playlist shows Zecharias' Luke 1 meter; wow, HE plays on Mary's. Bear in mind he spoke 3 months after she did;
Luke's just quoting. So
this tells you how commonly they used meter; like we might compose a lyric or rhyme, on
the fly! Mary's just talking off the top
of her head on ARRIVAL, for crying out loud; Zecharias, is talking for the
first time in nine months! Paul
Uses Their Meters To Craft the Ephesians 1 Ninety-One's: four quarters in the Year, Boat of Church.
Other material (all outdated)
o
Summary
of Bible Hebrew Accounting Meter Usage: http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewAccountingMeter.doc
,
o
which
is a Word doc copy of blog entry: http://godsrhetoricalstyles.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-entry-is-long-time-in-coming.html
o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeter.htm
. Initial doc on the
Meter Rules. Has been updated in the
Psalm 90 playlist video description, Episode 23b, and especially in the blog
entry listed at the beginning of this subsection.
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53trans.htm
. Analysis of Isaiah 53's import with combined
BHS+LXX texts . Material is somewhat
outdated. My original purpose was to see
if any Hebrew words were missing, i.e., as shown in Moeller's copy of the
Isaiah scroll. What a surprise, to
find the text perfectly metered, instead!
Ephesians 1:3-14
(with Meter-Matching
Translation)
Color Legend:
Red= elision or single-syllable sound; blue (cumulative) and orange (per sevened paragraph) = syllable count;
teal = verse #. Each shaded area is a distinct grammatical unit, divides by 7. Same criteria as in Isaiah 53, Psalm
90's Hebrew.
End
Notes are super- or subscripted in pink. Read bracketed text (but not parentheses) as
part of the meter in translation.
Wavy line is eudokian anaphoric bookend. Dashed line is epainon anaphoric bookend. Thick line
is Temple anaphoric
bookend.
Navigation: click on a boxed verse number to go to its Note. Click on a pink letter to go
to its Note.
Or,
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12 13 14
3 Εὐλογητὸς
ὁ θεὸς καὶ
πατὴρ10 |
Worthy of Glory [is] God the Father a |
|
τοῦ
κυρίου ἡμῶν
Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ 20 |
of The
Lord-and-Our-Master, Jesus Christ; |
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ὁ
εὐλογήσας
ἡμᾶς 27 |
the One Who Is
Blessing Us b |
|
ἐν
πάσῃ εὐλογίᾳ πνευματικῇ 37 |
with every
spiritual blessing [class] |
|
ἐν
τοῖς
ἐπουρανίοις
ἐν Χριστῷ 47 |
with those living
in heaven, via Christ, |
|
even as He had
elected us; |
56 |
ἐν αὐτῷ πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου 66 |
In Him before the
founding of the world, |
|
εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἁγίους73 καὶ ἀμώμους 77 B,D |
we are
[pronounced] to be holy, blemish-free; |
21 |
κατενώπιον αὐτοῦ 84C |
Before Him, by His
Standard; |
7 |
By means of Love,
He had foreordained us, b |
|
|
εἰς υἱοθεσίαν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ 105 D,I |
into [His]
heirship, sonship through Jesus Christ; |
21 |
εἰς αὐτόν κατὰ τὴν εὐδοκίαν 114 |
Into Him, as per
His Own Delight h |
|
τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ 121 H |
in His Own
Will-and-Purpose, |
|
6 εἰς ἔπαινον δόξης τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ 133 E |
resulting in praise
to the Glory of His Grace; |
28 |
ἧς ἐχαρίτωσεν ἡμᾶς 141 |
With which [grace],
He has graced us out: |
|
ἐν τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ 147 F,G,I,J |
within, the Beloved; |
14 |
21+ 7
+ 21+ 28 +14 = 91
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7 ἐν ᾧ ἔχομεν τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν 157 |
In Whom we keep on
having redemption, d |
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διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ 165 |
on account of and
through His Blood: |
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τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν παραπτωμάτων 175 E,L |
debt cancellation,
for our transgressions; |
28 |
κατὰ τὸ πλοῦτος τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ 186 |
per the Standard of
the Riches of His Grace, |
|
8 ἧς ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς ἡμᾶς 195 |
with which [grace]
He superabounds us, |
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ἐν πάσῃ σοφίᾳ καὶ φρονήσει 205 |
by means of all
wisdom and reasoned thought; |
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9 γνωρίσας ἡμῖν τὸ μυστήριον 215 |
|
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τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ 222 |
about His
Will-and-Purpose, |
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κατὰ τὴν εὐδοκίαν αὐτοῦ 231 H |
according to His
Own Delight |
56 |
ἣν προέθετο ἐν αὐτῷ 238 F,J |
which [delight] He
(Father) set forth via Him (Christ); |
7 |
28 + 56 + 7 = 91
To Result in the 'Filling-Up of Times' Dispensation; e |
14
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ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι260 |
To Sum, gather under one Head, |
|
τὰ πάντα ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ 267 |
all [Trial] matters, in Christ: |
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τὰ ἐπὶ τοῖς οὐρανοῖς καὶ 275 |
[all matters] in the heavens, and |
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τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐν αὐτῷ 283 |
[all matters] on earth, via Him; |
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11 ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἐκληρώθημεν 291 I |
in Whom, even we inherit, |
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προορισθέντες κατὰ πρόθεσιν 301 A |
foreordained as per Temple 'Shewbread' Plan;f |
49 |
τοῦ τὰ πάντα ἐνεργοῦντος 308 A |
Through Whom He works out all things,b |
7 |
κατὰ τὴν βουλὴν τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ 320H |
per His Own Standards of Delight, Will-and-Purpose: |
|
12 εἰς τὸ εἶναι ἡμᾶς εἰς ἔπαινον δόξης αὐτοῦ 334 |
to the end that we be [made into] praise for His Glory, |
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τοὺς προηλπικότας ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ 343 J |
the 1st 'fruits' of those trusting in Christ; |
35 |
49 +
7 + 35 = 91
13 ἐν ᾧ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀκούσαντες 352 |
In Whom, even you
also hearing |
|
τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας 360 |
the [Divine] Word
of [Divine] Truth, |
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τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς σωτηρίας ὑμῶν 372 |
the Official
Announcement of your Salvation; |
|
ἐν ᾧ καὶ πιστεύσαντες 379 |
in Whom, even
believing, |
|
ἐσφραγίσθητε τῷ πνεύματι388 |
you were sealed by
the [Holy] Spirit |
|
τῆς ἐπαγγελίας τῷ ἁγίῳ 398 |
with Heritage
Pledge by that Holy One; K |
|
14 ὅ ἐστιν ἀρραβὼν 404 |
This One (Spirit)
is Downpayment N |
|
τῆς κληρονομίας ἡμῶν 412 |
on this inheritance
of ours, |
|
into Redemption
[price] of [us as] The Possession: d |
|
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resulting in,
praise for His Glory. |
91 |
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OUTLINE
Verses 6, 12, 14 are anaphoric, dual-entendre: How God Glorifies
Christ and thus is Glorified, using Church.
Verses
3-6, Father Glorified and Glorifies His Son, 21 sevens, Temple
Building D, J
o verse 3 through 1st
clause in verse 4, dramatic opening flourish Prologue (like John begins his Gospel and 1John) -- a 56-syllable doxology and
dateline. See Verse 4 note and End Note a on '56'.
o 1st '91', ten
clauses: second clause in verse 4 through verse 6, Election
Purpose to be sons of the Son.
As a result, Father is Glorified.
[Fulfills Isaiah 53:12 due to contract in
Isaiah 53:10, Matt16:18 and prayer in John 17.
Juridical basis: Election of Christ, so we are elected IN Christ,
Isa52:13, 53:10, 12. j, l]
Verses
7-12, Son Glorified via Church, 28 sevens,
Temple Voting E, J
o
2nd '91', ten clauses: verses 7-9, Spiritual Assets
Election for spiritual growth for building and operation of
Church Temple aka Body of Christ.
o
Verse
10, Trial Purpose to wrap up all history, Time Bridge
back to Israel and Millennium.
o 3rd '91': verses 10b-12, FirstFruits
Presentation Purpose of History. As a
result, Christ is Glorified.
Verses
13-14, Spirit Glorified
and Glorifies Son by Making Church, 13 sevens (number play on 12 tribes with Joseph's
double-portion)
Temple Construction and Function, Royal Family of Christ
o 4th '91', ten
clauses:
verses 13-14, inclusive. Not divisible
by seven until the end. j
o
Verse
13, Sealing Ministry
o Verse 14, He
functions as the Downpayment on our Inheritance, Agent of
Spiritual Growth. As a result,
Spirit is Glorified. [Due to the Election
of Christ, it's justifiable that God Himself make us, since we are the Asset of
Christ. Idea that we are His Inheritance, so it's
not a compromise to Righteousness to intimately relate to us.]
The ten-clause structure of each '91' paragraph is vital: each
clause 'talks back to' its counterpart in the next '91'. Like John in 1John, Paul uses a
tic-tac-toe outline form of
rhetoric. Thus you know exactly
what Paul means.
Greek and Bible
rhetoric frequently stress importance by repeating small differences versus the prior
text. This style is used to
advance the meaning of an idea.
You'll see the Lord and the writers do it with OT quotations, which is
known as 'interpretative quoting'.
Modern example: 'Give me Christ
or give me death'. Obviously I changed
the famous Patrick Henry quote by one word, substituting 'Christ' for the
original 'liberty'.
Paul takes what he'd
just said and slightly changes it to show the relationship
between the prior text and the changed text, so you know exactly what
he means. Since the text is ropingly
repetitive, we Christians miss this rhetorical technique (and especially its
import), which is rampant in Bible (i.e., that's why we have four Gospels, not
just one). The purpose of
repeating and then slightly changing previously known text is to show how the
CHANGE RELATES to that previous text.
It's especially important in legal contracts, and that's what we have
here: Paul outlines the Legal
Inheritance Provision OF Christ, and therefore IN Christ.
[See: I just did a
tic-tac-toe, changing OF to IN, and you thus learned the RELATIONSHIP due to
that little prepositional change. That's
exactly how the NT writers do it, so to see that, track the preposition changes
right here in Eph 1:3-14. Then do that
with any Bible passage. Can't tell you
how often my pastor admonished us to 'track the prepositions' and 'track the
definite articles', in order to know the writer's 'flow' of discourse; else, you don't really know what he's
saying. So, that's what I'm doing here!]
To
see this tic tac toe, print out the three
Greek pages and lay them on a table or floor; side by side, such that each '91'
paragraph is horizontally beside the next, in verse order.
Now,
start with the first clause in the first '91', verse 4's "In Him before the founding of the
world".
Next, read the first clause in the second
'91', verse 7's "In
Whom we keep on having Redemption".
Next, read the first clause in the third
'91', verse 10's "To
Sum, gather under One Head".
Finally, read the first clause in the fourth
'91', verse 13's "In Whom, even
you also hearing".
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Do the same for each second clause, then each
third clause, etc. Then do it
vertically, matching the similar words to the next such similar
clause in the next '91'.
In
short, all these clauses link horizontally and vertically, just as building
blocks. Showing the INTERTWINED function
of Trinity. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. Tic-Tac-Toe with ALL X's (Christos!),
Full Circle, Ultimate Palindrome.
Awesome stuff!
Two Extra
Observations: First, I get the strong impression
Paul not only invokes Daniel 9's prayer to Restore the Temple as rhetorical
basis for Paul's meter, stressing the 62 'weeks' of Dan 9:1-13's and v.16's
meter, and God's explicit use of 62 in reply, Dan 9:25; but Paul also invokes
Isaiah 63, especially the 'year of redemption' clause in Isa63:4. That chapter is structured as verses 1-9 Son,
10-14 Spirit, 15-19, Father. Isaiah
himself benchmarks keywords in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 90. Daniel
also invokes Isaiah 63:15-19, in Daniel 9:15-19. What a shock.
So maybe Isaiah 63 is metered, too?
Paul definitely invokes it as the legal basis for his structure here,
for look at how Isaiah 63:7-10 act as a biography for the origin of
Church. See also Romans 11.
Second, that Paul
demonstrates by this meter structure, how Church Has Its Own Better Deal
due to Christ's Success at the Cross, ergo his running sotto-voce warning, don't be
jealous of the Jews. By using the same Hebrew Meter as in the OT, Paul
stresses Juridical Continuity,
so we are not to interpret what he says as replacement of
Israel. It's not Juridical Continuity,
if the covenant prior, is broken. And
Paul's showing that in fact the OT covenant is NOT broken, but rather Church is
being used as the Time Bridge To Fulfill The Covenants To Israel,
Eph1:23, Romans 11. [Book of Hebrews is built around Ephesians;
but Paul didn't write it, he'd just died, Hebrews 13:23. Hebrews stresses 'better', Attic kpeittwn;
so we know that God's Promise to Israel is to be fulfilled via Church Time
Bridge: Hebrews 11:39-40 shows that context of Juridical Continuity, from Abel forward.]
OVERVIEW: Verses 3-14 are all one sentence in the
Greek. So you are to read them as a
contractual whole, with subsections. Legal
language: idea that nothing is defined outside the context. That sets up for both Paul's prayer in verses
15-23, which doesn't close, and for the
second chapter's two walls.
[It
now looks like Paul treats 1:15 through 3:19 as a whole, also; meaning, text between 1:23 and 3:15 is a
parenthetical explanation; his actual prayer is bifurcated, so you are to read
the prayer as bookended, with 1:15-23 as the left bookend, and 3:15-19
as the right bookend. Writer of Hebrews
does the same thing but with Jeremiah 31:31-34, left bookend at Hebrews 8:8-12,
and right bookend at Hebrews 10:15-17.
That means he's talking back to this 1:15-3:19 passage in
Ephesians, too. Have to study that idea further, since I don't recall my pastor
(back in 1985-1991) noticing that parallel structure; he noticed and explained the Hebrews
bookending style, but treated the two Ephesians prayers as separate, first
unfinished, latter as finished. It was a
very important hermeneutical point, to him.
Only now, do I see why.]
In short, the
election of Church is separate from all other covenants. You are never to read the covenants prior or
future 'into' the context of verses 3-14, because all other such covenants
are outside the sentence. ELECTION OF CHURCH is the
theme of the book. Doesn't mean
there were no other elections, but does mean that no other
elections (and hence blessing contracts) are in view. In Chapter 2, Paul talks about how Church
relates to the other covenants; Church
is its own wall, and the other covenants are the other wall.
Still, here in
Ephesians 1 Paul deliberately parallels OT covenants, to show precedence and
carryover.
Bride has her own 'deal', but it's based on the past. All Justice is founded on precedence. There must be a contractual reason to
abrogate a covenant and start a new one;
whatever went wrong in the old contract, remains a juridical issue in
the new one. Consistency and precedence
are the foundation of jurisprudence, especially God's.
Christians disregard
God's jurisprudence
(click
here for definition),
when reading Bible. So Ephesians 1 (like
Daniel 9) in translation is churchy, snoozy, gee-whiz-look-how-God-loves-us. So the reader misses what Paul says!
One can see how
Catholics and Reformers, mistakenly or with malice, read Israel OUT of
God's promises. They ignore the separateness
of the legal grammar structure, above. Something
old (precedence), something new (covenant), something borrowed (learning from the past covenants in
the OT), something blue (God's Fealty in all Covenants,
dispensations).
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Bride could have been
Israel, but Vashti refused to come. So Church
(including
any Jews who believe) is The Esther, whose
job is also, to protect the Jews.
All other covenants for Israel were unilateral and unconditional,
sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So
they are yet-to-be-fulfilled. The only conditional
covenant was the Brideship. We end up
being that Bride. Brideship is a separate
contract, sourced in Christ via his pre-Israel kata-Melchizedek Kingship
(Battlefield
Royalty Award for defeating Satan, Psalm 110, Hebrews 1-2). So it
does NOT negate Israel's own covenants that were unconditional,
delivered also due to Christ as Seed (Galatians 3), but initially provided and thus
precedentally sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So Ephesians 2 shows TWO walls.
I cover the Two Walls
and the changeover at length in http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan2.htm#CovProps and http://www.brainout.net/LvS4aContinued.htm#Bridal .
It's vital to account
the covenants and their terms, legacies, and above all, named beneficiaries. If your aunt named you as a beneficiary but
someone else came in and claimed your aunt replaced you with a third party, the
Judge would demand proof, else 'you' remain the beneficiary per your aunt's
will. Same, for God's Will. there
are no other named beneficiaries for the millennial and eternal ot promises
except israel through abraham, moses, DAVID and christ.
But prejudice like
anti-semitism, affords a handy excuse, for Bible misuse. Even, for centuries. Anti-semitism is the
worst spiritual cancer in the Body of Christ.
Sad thing is, all the major denominations have it in their doctrines of
Replacement Theology, preterism, 'we are the lost tribes', amillennialism,
denial-of-Rapture, etc. 90% of
Christianity! No wonder Christians are
hurting. End Commercial Message...
Paul's meter apes
Psalm 90's both in content and structure;
he apes Daniel 9's, in purpose;
all to show God's Use for Time. Psalm 90 began with a Decree Antiphony, first
84 syllables. Isaiah split that Decree into bookends of 42's: first half,
Isa52:13-14; last half, 53:12. (Isaiah 53 starts at
52:13, in Hebrew.) Daniel invokes the 84 in Dan9:14, 17 in 42-syllable bookends
like Isaiah, thus claims the Isaiah promise based on Psalm 90's 84, to invoke the 1Kings
9 contract.
So Paul splits Psalm
90's 84, into four 21's.
[There
are also four 21-syllable 'paragraphs' in Psalm 90, one per epoch: verse 4,
Millennial; verse 8, Adamic; verse 9, Noahic;
verse 16, Israel in Diaspora. See
my Psalm 90 playlist in Youtube; or,
view the same videos at the bottom of http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm
. They comprehensively review how Moses
tracks All Scheduled History in Psalm 90's Hebrew.
Also
see End Note d, j in this document, on the use of 21.]
Paul thus weaves the
Temple-building result of Daniel's prayer into four 91's = one year (364), starting at verse
5, plus a 'Messiah's Vote Precedence' of 70
(56+14); hence Paul's own
verses 3-14 = 434 syllables, just as
o Daniel summed his
meter tally to 434 by Daniel 9:13, and
o
made
Daniel 9:16 = 62 syllables;
so
o God made Daniel 9:25 (also metered) a '62' Promise;
o
so
Paul's verse 3-14 meters sum with the same 62 = 434, to show we are IN the 'time bubble'
of Daniel 9:26c.
Moses
used five 70's
to signify The Schedule Of All History (sabbatically, via believer voting periods). So, he subdivided his meter, thus: 84 (70+14),
70, 70,
70, ending with '56' (70-14, warning Israel would be 14 over her Time Budget).
Hence
Paul parallels Moses' Psalm 90, updates the '70' to '91'; for the Last Adam, won! [See End Note j on '91'.] So Church has its own Time: whatever
it takes, to fulfill the Time Promise God made, in Genesis 3:15.
Paul,
like Moses, then brackets the '14' TWICE to show it will be
fulfilled future of his own writing. [See End Note g, Verse 10 note, Pregnancy 1,
Pregnancy 1b,
Pregnancy 2 and Pregnant14,
below.] This set-apart, bracketing,
bookending, tallies to Psalm 90:16-17 and Isaiah 53:12, respectively. (14 over and then short in Psalm 90, at beginning and end; Isaiah brackets it by DEBITING 28 from the
total, 490 - 28 = 462, the number of syllables in Isaiah 53.) So Paul too asserts both Trib
and Mill, are yet future.
Verse 3
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Paul thus nests his meter, playing on
Chronos, Greek god of time, who ate his kids as soon as they were born. For of course Paul is writing to the Greeks,
so he makes analogy to the Real God, using ideas they all know. As you'll see
in the Pregnant Expectations section, Paul
cleverly nests Hebrew meter with famous Greek epic (10-11 syllable) meter,
again to show the culmination of Time,
via Church. So each
divisible-by-7 paragraph can grammatically stand alone, yet is unfinished. With a grand, recurring enjambment (see End
Note c), the line OF the breakpoint (where
divisible by 7) introduces content of the next 'paragraph'. That's a feature of classical Greek rhetoric,
to begin a new clause based on the content of the one prior. It's also a feature of Bible Hebrew. This is the ultimate palindrome, not
only in meter, but in content. You can
read Ephesians 1:3-14 either forwards or backwards. Full circle.
In
short, Paul's style is dramatic. Those
who allege his style is koine will misread what Paul says (i.e., Ephesians 1:7 and 14 are about ASSETS
of salvation YOU USE, not sterile gee-whiz-I'm-saved-so-I-don't-have-to-name-sins-to-God).
My pastor made a big stink about Paul's Drama Greek style, never mind
whether his words were superficially koine. The meter here proves that decisively, for he
concurrently uses classical epic (10-11 syllables) and Hebrew meter.
The meter is also subdivided into
three 'Glory' sections,
see End
Note n and the Outline. Verse 3 begins the 'Father-Glory'
subsection, how
Father glorifies Christ -- answering His Prayer in John 17 -- Who is glorified
by bringing Church to completion.
Subsection runs through the end of verse 6. The first word in Greek is eulogetos,
and Paul plays on that sound: eulogetos, eulogesas, eulogia. That Trinity soundplay is quite elegant in
Greek, but it sounds chirpy and phony in English; so I translated eulogetos as 'Worthy
of Honor' (my
pastor's translation),
rather than 'Blessed', since 'Blessed', 'Blessing' and 'Blessing' repetition
won't sound elegant in English, but rather hypocritical. Or worse, that God is blessed because He
blesses us, which is contrary to what Paul says!
First Clause: This is
a doxology, dramatic opening to Father. See End Note a. Paul
plays on sound in each clause, as just noted above. It's also better to say 'Worthy of Glory'
given the Trinity epainon anaphora
Paul employs in verses 6, 12 and 14, so the reader sees that
connection in translation. My
pastor's translation was "Worthy of Praise, Honor and Glorification",
so he referenced the anaphora, too.
Second Clause:
Continued. See End Note b.
Third
Clause: More
soundplay.
Fourth Clause: Greek en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei is also soundplay, but its meaning needs much more
explanation. You can't translate its meaning, in English. We snooze and ahh at 'every spiritual
blessing', yet have no clue what that means.
So here's your clue: if you have the Spiritual Blessing, you have all the
material ones, too.
Christ said, Seek Ye First The
Kingdom Of God, in Matt.
6:33; Luke 12:31. First things
first. For, you have a bizillion
dollars; that won't do you a bit of good, if you don't know how to use it. You must learn how to use what you have,
whether a little or a lot, and that's also why the Lord said, Faithful In
Little, Faithful In Much, Luke 16:10, 19:17. So, first you have a little, you learn how to
use it well, and as a result you get more.
So, first you learn a little about your spiritual assets, then use
what you learned, and then you get more.
Now think this over: since your assets are spiritual, you have to
LEARN them. So, that requires what? TIME. Time to study. Time alone.
Time to think. And you know what
that means: you have to have MONEY, so you can have the TIME, to study. For you need money to live, and working costs
you what? Time. If your life is complicated with people and
obligations, well then you need circumstances that somehow save you Time. Get the picture?
Have
you noticed? Every Bible hero spent a lot of time alone. You go off by yourself for set times to
learn, study, think. And yes, you attend
teaching (church is to attend teaching, not socialize). But then you have to think over what you
heard, not just forget it.
Forgetters, James 1:23-25. You
'do' the Word by what? Thinking about
it. Can't do what you don't know,
and can't know, if you don't think it over!
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So you must organize your life, to
get that Time to Study. And you will, if you Want To Learn. Thus you are indeed seeking the Kingdom of
God, since you are seeking to learn it.
Him.
So God will CREATE the Time, the
Money, and whatever means are needed, so you CAN learn. So if
you don't have those things, either a) you're not seeking, or b) you think you
should do it on your own, so you're not Asking God.
ASK
Him. You'll be very surprised at His
Response. More time and money than you can
imagine. But of course, if you want to
spend it on something other than Him, well.. you'll end up losing it. And you will eventually lose it at times,
even when you want to learn Him, to refine your motive in having it.
Training in Having First the
Spiritual Assets, and as a result, the Material. Because you need
the material, logistically speaking, to get the spiritual. Once you have the spiritual, you still
need the material to PRACTICE your spiritual learning assets ON the material. To express your learning. You always have tension between spiritual and material, Romans 8. At times you must stress the material, as
whatever you receive, you own; whatever
you own, owns you.
It's
a funny thing about wealth. A lot of
money can easily be worse than poverty.
Why? Because wealth TAKES UP
TIME. So to get time to study, you must
have the right kind of wealth, in the right amount, lest the
wealth actually Eat the Time you needed for study.
So
that right-kind-and-amount question might result in you seeming to have too
little money, relative to your expectations about what frees up your
time. So ask God how to Find the Time in
the position He gives you. Then
watch what happens. It will always be
glitchy -- remember, the demon boys don't want you to learn Bible -- but
God will always furnish you with the answers if you keep using 1John1:9 and
asking Him, Hebrews 11:6. He will
prosper you more. The right amount, at
the right time, in the right way, to Have The Time To Learn Him. And that's true wealth, baby.
To get a sense of the wealth God
makes OUT of your study, skim http://www.brainout.net/LvS4b.htm#1stFacet
. My pastor spent seven years explaining 'every
spiritual blessing' (in his 1985 Ephesians series); so in that webpage I tried to classify what
he'd taught. Better still, get the
series yourself, at http://www.rbthieme.org . They
never ask for money.
So Paul's Greek en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, also invokes what people knew from the Mosaic Law, Leviticus 26
and Deut 28. That's
what the Sermon on the Mount, also summarized. God set
up Israel to be the Blessed Nation, so everyone could know HE was God. So people could Vote with their Feet to Learn
This God. That's why He blessed the
weather, the crops, the people with all kinds of genetic talents, looks,
you-name-it: which even today, the Jews are so famous for having, there are
hundreds of jealous myths about them. To advertise that the God of Israel is the Real God.
Of course, going with all that advertised prosperity, was a
sober warning: TEACH THEM. KEEP STUDYING ME. Israel failed to do that. So, look at how she's been punished for
centuries now. Heartbreaking. So for Church, it's the same warning, but at
a higher level. And look how we've been
suffering, too. We aren't seeking Him. So, we hurt.
Katrina mostly hit the Bible belt, you know.
See how
much more is meant by en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei? It's
real, it's literal, it's vast, and it can't be translated except with snoozy
church words everyone knows but no one understands!
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Fifth Clause, Greek epouraniois doesn't mean 'in the heavens', but 'those living in the heavens'. Preposition 'epi'
distinguishes the inhabitants from the place. Greek ouranios, which Paul uses in
verse 10, means the place.
Big
difference. See, a blessing fuzzily
defined as 'in heaven', masks the shocking import of what epouranios means:
Your blessing is NOW,
right down here,
is PUBLIC AMONG those in
heaven, en
epouraniois.
Angelic Trial, baby: that's a Big Deal.
Your dead
gramma or great-uncle knows what you've got in Christ. You don't know. Every elect and fallen angel knows. But you don't know. And they all wonder -- only at times, they
do other things, y'know -- they wonder if you will ever LEARN what you
have.
When my pastor
taught this, he'd often bring up an analogy to a kidnapped Royal heir. The King and Queen spared no expense looking
for him. Finally they found him with the
gypsies in a circus. The kid, of course,
had no idea who he was, he had been kidnapped so young.
A lot rides on whether you do
learn, for none of us is an island. This Angelic Trial is the purpose for Church, too, and that's what
Paul introduces here. If I screw up during a day (and I do, many times)
-- that has an impact forever. Using
1John1:9 can cancel that impact, or at least modify it, depending on God's
Justice Rules. At my stage of
maturation, I expect some discipline remains to train me; I'm not a kid, anymore. I expect some of what happened became a Trial
Issue, so I must redo some practice. (Greek word pragma
often in wordplay for Trial Matter, Paul will elliptically use in verse 10;
which the writer of Hebrews picks up, in Hebrews 11:1.) And
there will be gain, as there was a loss.
That's how God does things, Isaiah 54:1.
UPSHOT: it's all PUBLIC.. up there. Think of Royal Family on TV. That's YOU, on Divine TV.
o Paul's doxology is meant to be instructive: you are a PUBLIC PERSON.
o What you are down here, stopped being an issue
when you got saved. What you are UP
THERE will forever matter.
o So, en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, Every Spiritual Blessing, is PUBLIC.
o So what do you do with what you have in Christ? That's
the Trial Issue.
o Furthermore, this epouraniois clause
introduces the theme of the Book: Church is Public, Body
of Christ is On Trial, so What
Completes Church, Completes History.
o Trial ends, with Church (verse 10). The rest, is Epilogue.
Are you freaked
out? You should be. If Christ was watched by everyone (and He
was), what do you think is true for us?
We are Body. Why does everyone
obsess over Christianity? Why aren't
they obsessing as much over Buddhism?
More people are Buddhists in the world, than Christian. Why aren't they
obsessing as much over the Hindus? Many
more people on earth are Hindu, than Christian.
Why do the Buddhists obsess over Christianity? Why do the Hindus? Why do the Muslims? And for God's Sake WHY does everyone pick on
the Jews?
You see: we are
PUBLIC, because ours is the Real God.
Everyone knows that. Hates it,
laughs at it, but knows it, just the same.
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We are much
more public, in heaven. Just as those
Bible people whose lives we often know by heart, our own lives are on
public view, being commented on. So when
you decided whether to wear a pink tie or dress, and had your petty thoughts, it
was all broadcast to heaven. Live,
like the 1999 movie Edtv, starring Matthew McConaughey. When you learned something you found
important about God, that was broadcast, too. When you go to the toilet, make love, eat
dinner.. all public. To the epouranioi,
who decided to peek in on you. Some of
them are elect angels, 1Pet1:12. Some
are fallen, ibid. Some are probably your dead relatives, that's a
logical corollary, for if angels are interested, wouldn't your relatives be,
too? Etc.
Just as those
Bible people's lives are public consumption down here, so our lives are public
consumption.. up there. Think
about it. Smile, You're on Divine
Candid Camera!
[My pastor
taught that angels can't read our thoughts.
I have to disagree with that, partially.
Since we are on Trial, a theme he taught stridently, it's not fair
disclosure if our thoughts can't be read.
So I posit that some kind of Divine Broadcasting System is provided,
either on an ad hoc or on a blanket basis, probably the latter, the idea
being that anyone 'up there' can eavesdrop at will. Why?
To demonstrate the Trial issues.
Most of our lives, are lived in our heads. What we say and do, often is counter to what
we think. It would be an essential Trial
'discovery' (legal term) issue to have our thoughts, disclosed. So, they are.]
Again, my pastor spent seven years showing the ties to
Eph1:3, pan-Bible. Royal Family. Us. Public.
In Him. What we do, determines
history forever. He taught that over and over. 'Not only down
here, where the Justice Consistency Requirement of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy
28 principles obviously apply.. but forever.
"As goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God", my
pastor often quipped. Yeah, and we are
what? A "holy nation",
1Pet2:9. So in whatever nation we live,
we are to be good citizens and thus a blessing to it, 1Tim2, Romans 13. For in heaven, we are forever citizens -- and
the earthly kingdoms, all belong to CHRIST -- Philippians 3:20 (see also Eph
2:6, 19).
So, we are On Display. Just as Christ was. And of
course, still is. He's the REASON WHY we
too are On Display, Hebrews 11:1 (in Greek,
verse is mistranslated, see my http://www.brainout.net/Heb111.htm).
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Paul continues the
Father-Glory subsection. First clause ends
the previous 'paragraph', ropes (piggybacks) as is good classical Greek style,
to introduce the next paragraph. The
next paragraph, beginning at the second clause, is about the content of
the Election which Glorifies Father. It
runs through the end of verse 6.
First clause,
double-entendre
syntax: Father elected; but Christ also had to and did, elect Church in
Matt16:18.
Paul uses a 56 dateline for when he
writes: End Of Christ's 56th Year. [See End Note a, Meter Tagging Styles, and Pregnancy
1 on '56'.] That's S.O.P., first divisible-by-7 'paragraph' is a
dateline. It's also 56 sevens from
when Alexander the Great became King of Macedon, who also died at age 33.
That would matter, to Paul's Greek audience.
A Better Alexander is here, and He DID Conquer the World for all
time! [If Paul writes Ephesians during his Acts 21 imprisonment
in Jerusalem, 56 would correspond to our dates; that would explain why the rest of the
chronology here -- see the Chrono Chart link -- so
closely matches our dates. Maybe it was
SENT, later. Tychicus was in both places, with Paul.]
So Paul resets Time
Accounting to Christ's Birth, to show Time is rebirthed, too.
[My
timeline in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls,
ties the 490s to Christ's death. Paul
instead benchmarks 490's from His Birth.
So subtract 33 from each of the 490 endings in GeneYrs.xls, see what new
historical patterns, might emerge. God
tracked David's 490s to the endings of his kingship and death, but also
tracked his birth to the 400th anniversary of the Exodus (which you can't see,
until analyzing 1Kings 6:1); so the
490's of Christ would likewise benchmark at death, surely; but what tracks
should benchmark forward from His Birth, I'm not sure yet.
God benchmarks from
births, deaths, crownings, other events;
each is an accounting track; they all converge. So the accounting basis for each time
track must be deciphered, or you'll go in circles, frustrated. Example:
Psalm 90 runs on four accounting tracks:
from Flood, from Israel's slaveship, from Adam, and from the year Moses
writes, to the appointment of human kings.
All those tracks are embedded in the meter.]
See also Galatians
4:4 in Greek, which plays on Christ's Chanukah birthday. (Bible Proof that Christ was born on Chanukah
is covered here: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#HisBday
, including timesaving videos.) So Paul just can't help but quip Gal 4:4,
since Chanukah coincided with the Roman Saturnalia: Greek god 'Chronos' is
another name for Saturn, famous for eating his kids as soon as they were
born. Hence Saturnalia at end of year, time eaten, time born. Get the pun?
Christ comes in Full-Term Pregnancy of Time, and is Eaten to Deliver
Time! So Paul wittily uses pleroma
in Eph1:10, see End Note e. [Bible debunkers
ignore the many problems with Varro's 'auc'.
Review Roman
Chronology problems for
details. Claudius
mandated this calendar for Rome. Our bc/ad
system is based on it: 753AUC = '1BC'.
More on this topic is covered in Appendix I, here.]
Anno
Domini
Accounting: Years From The King
(Click
here for the Appendix I bc/ad
reconciliation to Paul)
o Paul follows the same
dateline convention as Isaiah 53, Daniel 9. Time Theme of those OT
passages is first David to Last David.
Last David Has Come And Left The Building For Father To Complete, so
Paul nee Saul (named
after Israel's first king, how apt), writes the conventional date as years-from-the-king, the Last David's Birth. For the brith, changed to Matt16:18's
promise when He Successfully Died, Daniel 9:26's 'karat'. Cutting a covenant. Ours.
o Paul
writes on or near Christ's 57th birthday, setting up his metrical
theme of a 'YEAR' FOR CHURCH (the four 91's). Total syllable count
equals Daniel 9:25's 62 weeks ( = Daniel's meter in
Dan 9:1-13's 434-syllable total and v.16's 62
syllables), subdivided 364+70. Equals years 1st Temple stood (364) versus
its Allotment (490 years, so 126 years remained). Exodus plagues also lasted one year; so too,
Noah's time in the boat. (364: day of exit is excluded. New day piggybacked on sundown prior. Paul uses LXX Flood dating, not BHS, see http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc
.)
o Analogy: our 'time' is like Noah's in the Ark =
Christ, awaiting God to say 'come out', Genesis 8:14-16, 1Thess4:17; aka
Rapture, Rev 4:1's 'come up here'. Paul
here tags Psalm 90:3's 'shuvu'
("Return!", a command) as
well,
the 57th syllable in Psalm 90.
[2Pet3:6-8, a Rapture passage, also pegs to
Eph1:4. Notice that Peter ties to the
END of the Flood, not the beginning. Harold Camping misuses it, to artificially
craft an anti-Biblical timeline in order to cover up his own past mistakes,
page 1 of his (nee) rapture-proof.pdf : http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.pdf
. However, Camping's gaffe helps us see
what Peter DID mean. Peter concurrently
points to Psalm 90:4, Eph1:4's bookending 56 meter, with the selfsame ellipsis
in Eph 1:14, tying it to the Flood's LAST 57 in Genesis 8:14-16, which was precedence
in the Mosaic law for the last 57 years of history preceding the Millennium.]
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o
Precedence: Christ had all
humanity 'in' Him on the Cross, Romans Chapters 5-6; just as Noah had all
humanity 'in' him in the boat.
Paul also
uses the 56
(and
its split-factors, 28) to ape and tag specific passages
of the same syllable counts in
o Psalm 90 (http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc),
o Isaiah 53 ( http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.JPG), and
o Daniel 9 (http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF)
--
o
as a Warning T0 Vote.
o So the tagging, is a form of antiphony. [See Note a, Pregnancy 1 , and Meter Tagging Styles.]
o
Paul thus ends verse 14 at 434
syllables
= 490-56, as the Entire
Church Age is Dan 9:26's 62nd 'week', yet to finish.
Many scholars know
that separateness-of-Church and 'Daniel 9:26 time-bubble' meaning in
Ephesians 1 and 3; but they don't know how it's stressed and intertwined, within
the meter.
Many of the debates
over Daniel 9's interpretation are conclusively resolved, once you see the
interplay of the meter as a cross-referencing system the writers use to
point to other Bible passages. Daniel's
meter usage in particular, would resolve the hoary debate over when Daniel
wrote; for like other Bible writers, he DATELINES when he writes, by a
specific metric convention (first sevened paragraph). We see that convention from Moses forward; it
can be checked pan-Bible; so it can be independently verified.
Daniel also includes
certain biographical dates with respect to himself, Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar
that you find in the text; but to also find it in the meter, well.. you
get certification of the traditional early date for Daniel (i.e., 607-538BC), given that meter is regularly used to
Account Time, in the Bible.
Confirmed, by the way PAUL uses the Daniel passage,
as we'll see throughout this document.
[http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc,
footnote E covers the Daniel meter usage line by line. You might want to read it alongside the above
bulleted Daniel 9 link.]
So from this meter,
you can see how Paul sets up his Ephesians 3:18 prayer of 'dimensions' for
Church 'Temple'
(again,
stressing Church has its own covenant), aka
Body of Christ. Thus he also sets
up Chapter 2. It's not clear in
translation how Paul got from verse 1:3 to 3:15; not clear, how he got to Chapter 2. Translation is jerky, out-from-nowhere.
So in translation,
you can't follow Paul's elegant flow; so what he means, you can't elegantly know.
You surely can't tell he apes Daniel, incorporating by reference four
key Bible passages via meter tags!
Ultimate Rule of
Hermeneutics is to apprehend the exact thought of the writer. How many times we've all heard that rule from
our pastors and Bible scholars. Well, if you don't know the writer's flow,
you don't know what he's saying, or why he's saying it! And here we Know The Flow, from the
meter. Because, it was popular to
memorize aurally; so they would value
Paul's evocative syllable accounting.
Meter
was the core of prophetical accounting. For centuries past, God Required You To Know When Messiah would
Come.
See: for eons
everyone was required to know What Time it was.
They learned it while being weaned: 2100 years until the progenitor
for Messiah, then (for Israel) 2100 years more until Messiah came 57
years before The End, then The Day of The Lord. So those distant from each 2100, were
disheartened. Those close to it, were
nervous and goofy, like pre-Tribbers, today.
when was told long in
advance, like the Flood. Paul
demonstrates this accounting, in Acts 13:20ff.
So notice:
post-Temple fall, believers were still
thinking in terms of The Date, which had been long known to be 57 years before
the 4200th year from Adam's Fall. So
they were upset the Rapture didn't arrive, and the public effect was very much
like what you see now with the Harold Camping fiasco. Put yourself in the believers' place: for 2000 years, they were obliged to count count count, warn the world of that
count, too.
Then all of a sudden,
poof! No More Counting?! And what they'd told the world for 2000 years,
suddenly doesn't happen at the right time?
Do you realize now,
why Acts 1:7 reads as it does? They couldn't adjust to the change. So, they kept on counting. Paul relies on that attitude, to show why no more counting is needed.
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Due to Israel rejecting
Christ, a series of potential Rapture dates existed, keeping with the
original pre-Church schedule and its 50-year Harvest-the-Gentiles
goal. These dates were a constant source of speculation, as you'll see in the
Gospels, Acts and the epistles. For
if it was a good idea to have the period last 50 years pre-rejection, and the
same people were living 'now', then it was reasonable to expect God would
'shoot for' the same goal. So went
the 'logic'. For believers didn't
appreciate the changeover, due to Church.
Her existence wasn't simply to make up for Israel's rejection, as Paul
here and the later writer of Hebrews, will explain. A wholly new Body was an award to Christ due to His
Success at the Cross, not based on Israel's contract, but due to 'kata
Melchizedek', the Psalm 110 promise of Battlefield Kingship for defeating
Satan. Souls paid in advance, for
Him.
Old habits die
hard. The writer of Hebrews, like Paul,
will use folks' expectations here to warn them.
[Heb
2, 4, 7, 9, 10.]
Expected
Rapture Dates (Paul's Anno Domini
of Christ's Age; allow 3-year variance *). They calculated
Rapture backwards from an expected Daniel 9:27 midpoint. The underlined links below will take you to
that accounting. Paul uses the anaphora
meter, to 'balance' to these dates.
o
63 AD: Year
66 Trib midpoint, the Lord would have been dead as long as alive; Temple was
thus expected to go down.
o
70 AD: assumes His age 33+40 years at Temple Down in 73 AD. Trib would begin
3.5 years prior. Temple Down's 40
years balance, repaying the Land for Israel's late entry (40 years in
wilderness).
o
77 AD: seven
years prior to the 50-year mark under the old schedule, adjusted for Christ
dying seven years early.
o
80 AD: same
idea as 70AD, but using 33+50, rather than 33+40. Temple assumed to die in 83
AD.
o
83 AD: the
50-year mark, adjusted for Christ dying early (end of year); Temple would die in
87.
o
84 AD: 50-7
had He died on time (beginning
of year, which means April);
o
91 AD: the 50-year mark had He died on time. (Had He turned 40 the
previous Chislev, then died on Nisan, which 'becomes' 91.)
*
Tribulation
timing is based on David dying 3.5 years BEFORE Temple construction
began. So Rapture can only be pre-Trib.
So people then counted backwards from a deemed mid-Trib Temple Down,
to derive Rapture date. Speaking of
dates, Our BC/AD accounting comes from the Roman system. So if Rome were 753 years old when Christ was
born, 1 Anno Domini begins then.
Since Christ is born at the end of the Roman year, you
must add 1 or even 2, due to the overlap.
Also, if Paul wrote just after imprisoned in Jerusalem, 56 fits;
Tychicus could bring the letter later, the postscript
ending Ephesians, written then.
For
more info, see Roman
Chronology problems.
Paul will address
each of these potential dates, in order to show that yes, Virginia the
Rapture can happen at any time; but Body is being built and it will take as
long as it takes. Of course, the real concern should have been
to grow up to know him, and also
(negatively) to Grow Up because you don't know if others are growing up
faster than you, and the balloon will go up when they DO. Classical military motivation, not to be
caught with your pants down at Evaluation.
Bible uses military and economic terms to describe Evaluation, since
that was how Romans rewarded their troops.
Hence the
second clause at 66 syllables, begins a series
of what-if-the-rapture-happened
scenarios. Total paragraph count will be '21' (77-56), pregnant
Precedental Time of Temple Building,
Jacob's Time Outside the Land, Noah's thrice-sent dove. So the kosmou phrase ends equivalent
to our 68-69AD at start, Year of the Four Emperors; when Paul himself will die and so too,
Nero. That's when Tribulation was
expected to begin, but for a different prophetical reason: Christ would have
been dead as long as he had been alive, a 'mirror'. So Paul benchmarks it, as a 'what if'. Notice the wit, playing on the 66th syllable in Psalm
90: Yeah, eleph heleph! We'd have
'shuvu'd' in Him (Who was) before The Foundation, followed by 7
long-predicted years To Complete Building For Eternity! Philippians 3:11's ei pws, written
just after Ephesians, reflects that suddenness. [Greek ei pws ="if by whatever means" (death
or Rapture), missing in English Bibles, say Paul
Attains (works)! Though even BDAG admits katantaw = to arrive at a destination in life, same verb in Eph4:13! The quoted 'shuvu'd' is also from Psalm 90:3,
ending at 63 syllables, leaving seven for the Trib.]
Third
clause,
at 73
syllables
-- another what if the rapture happens scenario -- Paul tags
Daniel 9:5's 73 syllables (confessing all Israel had sinned). Like Isaiah before
him, Daniel used that verse metrically as a second dateline, tying back
to the end of Psalm 90: years-from the
initial rejection of God as King,
in 1050 bc. (=73 sevens = 511, #
years prior to Daniel's writing). For in the Millennium, The Rejected King
Returns. So note how Paul parallels
Daniel: if Trib began at syllable (year) 66, then it would
end at 73; so first Church (@66) and then (@73) the Trib folk would instead
be 'holy', rather than the 'sinners' Daniel rightly
confessed. The Millennium would
begin. Ties also to that same moment in Psalm
90:4, 'ayineyka' in Hebrew (73rd syllable): yeah, in His Sight, at LAST! Of
course, in Isaiah 52:15, 'w'asher lo shamu' ends the 73rd syllable: for
He'd be on earth for all TO hear.
But notice:
73 is not divisible by 7. That would have
been syllable 70, einai hemas, meaning we are to be -- what?
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if-the-Rapture in the same
third clause,
syllable 77. Here
Paul shows what's far more relevant to Rapture:
voting, not
date-setting. Yeah, as voting, not historical events,
cause the Rapture (Paul's climactic chapter 4)! Kinda nice to know Christians this century
are no better or worse than those of Paul's day. Watch...
Syllable 77 is divisible by
seven, so this benchmark is stressed (End Note b). It represents the start of the Christ's 78th year on His 77th birthday as the 77th Son of Adam, same
year as David's age when he died.
Isaiah metered Chapter 53's first 77 syllables after the
first David's age; so Paul apes that, just as Matthew 1 and Luke 3 did, both
books having been out when Paul wrote; so Paul uses the same meter, to
remind his audience. All the more, as Temple was foreknown to go down, 33-40
years after Crucifixion. All eyes were
on that Temple, mouths drooling, We might go Home by His 78th birthday! See: date-setting is not new.
Here
we gotta get technical about how Paul benchmarks the 77th syllable in the third clause
of verse 4, to show his metrical wit and doctrinal savvy, which of course is
for our instruction.
o
Isaiah
metered Chapter 53 based on an accounting theme of First David to
Last David.
o
So,
Isaiah begins Chapter 53 (52:13 in Hebrew) timed to David's lifetime,
o
but
with this twist: first 42 syllables, half of
Psalm 90's 84,
are about the Decree to make the Last David, Christ;
o but the meter is
timed, to the first David's birth in 1040 bc. [So Isaiah 53 should
be metrically read as tracking history from 1040 bc forward. The text
has a dual role of tracking Israel's future Countdown to Messiah 1 syllable = 1 year. Thus we learn how to
better interpret Kings and Chronicles.
Moses had done the same annual tracking, so the book of Judges is
designed in 'reply', showing how Moses'
tracking came true, which I quickly charted in http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf.]
o
Those first 42 syllables constitute
the Decree to Make The Christ, and the Decree that He will die for sins at the
hands of his own people, Isa52:13-14.
o
Then
as a result, the goyim will believe in Him, Isaiah 52:15.
o
That's
why Matthew 1 is rhetorically styled to
run at 42's, but
o
Luke
3, uses the 77 syllables
thru Isaiah 52:15, to incorporate the goyim, as the rhetorical base for
his 77th
Son.
o The first David was 77 when he died. [Scholars ignore 1
Kings 1:1-2:39, dismiss 1Kings 6:1 as a scribal error; and favor, errant Josephus.]
o
Paul plays on it as Luke did, but even more
so as Isaiah: 77 as an AGE.
o So Paul meter-maps
the third clause in his own verse 4, to the cumulative total
syllables in Isaiah 52:13-15, the Decree To Create Christ And Have Him
Pay. Notice how keenly Isaiah's
text ties to Paul's, here: einai hemas hagious kai amwmous, result of
Ultimate Sanctification. [So now we know specifically, what Bible
passage God has Paul tag. Meter is like a fingerprint, when you have
enough of it. Paul tags Isaiah's unique
77 palindrome in Chapter 53, just as Daniel, Matthew and Luke had done. ]
o
Notice
next, that Paul instead started the 91, in the second
clause of verse 4, at 66 syllables -- why? Well, look at the text -- In
Him In Him In Him!
o So notice the
palindrome: this third clause in
verse 4, ends with 77 syllables;
o
and
there are also 77 syllables between the
ending paragraph in verse 6 @14,
o
and
the start of the boxed 91 paragraph in the second clause
of verse 4.
o
So
a 77,
inside a 70! So the Savior Who is
the Ultimate
490
(77
aka 70
x 7
aka 490)
Votes even as those who will be saved by
Him voted, and thus He is born! And
Who Voted First? "Worthy of
Honor, God-Father", verse 3! See: the nested, metered wit is
phenomenal! Not like that dry reading in
church! Oh, but it gets even better,
watch...
o David in Him, as well
as He being in David! Us in
Him then, so we can be in Him now, since now He is in us!
o For Isaiah set
Chapter 53 to run 1078 years = syllables (remember, your new
year begins piggybacked on your birthday, so 1078=1077), with the interval
between first David's death and Isaiah's ministry (252 years) in ellipsis between
Isaiah 52:15 and Isaiah 53:1. The second
ellipsis (364
years)
is between Isaiah 53:10 and 53:11, a
promise to reimburse Temple Time;
which promise Daniel claims in his meter (Dan9:1-13's 434-syllable total and
v.16's 62 syllables);
so God benchmarked Daniel 9:25 (also metered), into an explicit 62. You can't see why He uses 62, in
translation.
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Now
examine Paul's
text at syllable 77: blemishless
(lit., blemish-free animals for
sacrifice). No more lo shameynu, 77th
syllable in Daniel 9 (verse 6). Instead,
hitbonanu, 77th
syllable in Isaiah (52:15). The 78th syllable evor (evening) of
Psalm 90:4 would have begun; 1000 years
dawning on the Day that is night, Zechariah 14:6-7. See how well Paul tags those OT passages?
Original Millennium was scheduled, had
Israel accepted Christ, as the 4200th year from Adam's fall. Moses
shows that schedule, by his own syllable 84 ending Psalm 90:4
(End Note
C). So Paul pegs it, next.
Fourth
Clause and 4th what if the rapture
happens scenario, 84, katenwpion
autou. Before Him by His Standard (kata).
The l'shmua Stands Before all; so we all 'report' Him, Isaiah
53:1 (84th syllable). Daniel's 84th syllable in
Dan9:6 is Ha! For then we FINALLY LISTEN Al-Avadeka the
naviim reported. Ya just gotta love Paul's meter-tags. What wit!
First
Clause
of verse 5: To craft '91', Paul makes 'In
love', an Attic enjambment (End
Note c). Metrically and grammatically, it belongs to
verse 5, but translators rightly end it in verse 4. So it sticks out as a bridge. So the rest of the clause,
would tally '91' (91st year begins on
90th birthday). No Christ, no Plan. the
election is christ, not us. due to christ we are elected. By Means of, by Agency of Love: Christ's.
Not, ours. Paul used the moniker
'Love' for Christ back in 1 Cor 13, climactic passage of His Head to be
completed in Writing so it can get into our heads (1Cor1:5's Greek, His
Word in our words).
Then again, one could
truncate the first clause into seven syllables, like this: en agape, proorisas! For if the Rapture
had happened at 91, we'd all be in the air with a shout, as
Paul told the Thessalonians. That clause
would make a good shout, and you'd elide the second O, to make 7 syllables. Since we'd be shouting, 'hemas' would be left
out. Thus Paul plays a
specific-syllable tagging game on his OWN text, as he talks.
First
Clause
of verse 5, actually ends with 94 syllables, and also is not
divisible by seven. 94 is past the '91' final Rapture date under the old schedule. The enjambment 'piggybacked' the 91, since it's a key
date relative to Christ, is divisible by seven and would be evocative,
here. So the 91 is embedded
in the 94. The 94 doubles as the mid-Trib point, in the
scenario, when the Tribulation evangelists (the 144k of Rev 7), come home to
heaven (shown in Rev 14). They would
be shouting the same thing, at that point.
But they wouldn't be SONS. So
this is a dramatic way to focus on the text -- you are pre-ordained to
SONSHIP, so think about THAT future, not
escape from life. Sound
familiar?
Rapture date expectations end, with 94. Yet Paul keeps using meter this way, to
acquaint us with future Church history.
For this passage, plays the same role as Psalm 90 for the Jews. See Paul's Chronology
Meter, for that story.
Meter
Tagging Styles We've Seen
Eph1:3's
first sevened paragraph ending at 56, is a deft way to 'tag' Isaiah 53:1+2, :5+6,
9+11. Each of those passages sums 56 syllables.
Paul has 'this thing' for quoting many verses at once by concatenated
catchphrase, i.e., in Romans, here in Ephesians, Galatians. I didn't know he'd also do it with meter! Look: Psalm 90:9+10, 13 through 15, 16+17
are also included. Probably
overlapping Psalm 90 verses 7 through 9 (which add to 57), as well.
Eph1:4's second
clause began a new sevened paragraph, 21 syllables long, as
you saw. Paul severally tags
Psalm 90:4, 8, 9, 16; each of those
verses is also 21 syllables. Paul tags these to set up what follows (he'll
also individually tag verse Ps90:7 at end of his own verse
6). So Paul's verse 4 here, second
clause through also the second clause of verse 5 (the huiothesian),
is antiphonal to those Psalm verses.
Compare content, see for yourself.
Awesome wit!
So right away we see
these Tagging
Styles:
o
First sevened paragraph is a DATELINE. Here, Anno Domini, the
year-from-The-King, in which Paul wrote.
o
By individual syllable number, above examples of
66, 73, 77; and finally 84, on Daniel 9:6. Of course, Daniel repeatedly tags individual
syllables in Isaiah, to create his prayer.
So we know Paul knew Daniel did that, for he aped
Daniel.
o
By aggregate (cumulative) syllable number,
example of the 84 and 77, above. Isaiah tagged Psalm 90:4; so Paul tags
Isaiah, as well as Psalm 90.
Which means, Paul knew Isaiah tagged Psalm 90.
o
By a sevened paragraph's sum, just illustrated
above with 56
and 21. More on the 56 and 21, is in Pregnancy 1.
o
For
more information now, see first section in Meter Notes,
and Paul's
Chronology Use of Meter.
Thus
we see Paul deploy meter based on Moses: in Bible, for 1500 years. It can be tested. It is deliberate. So what a
revolution for hermeneutics, if we all sought metered passages, i.e., those
giving us trouble. Even a old brainout
or a young kid, can count syllables; but
full research requires a cast of thousands,
not just one. Think of the
JOBS! End Commercial Message.
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First
clause: Greek en
agapei syntactically belongs to verse 5, heads the verse.
However, it's not wrong for translators to have put it at the end of verse 4,
see End Note c. Paul is piggybacking the import
of verse 5 on Love (aka Christ, aka Love=God).
Greek preposition en is a keyword, especially pan-NT.
Idea of stressing causality and result by nuanced use of prepositions,
articles, etc. Turns these little workhorses into racing stallions, driving the
meaning of every verse. That is, if you
can trace them. Hence, one might argue en should
always be translated the same way, since in Bible you track keywords, to see
flow. [Ergo many
scholars prefer literal-translation Bibles like KJV or NASB, to make tracking
easier.]
Unfortunately, English semantic range of 'in', though now heavily
influenced by Biblical usage, is too narrow, vs. Greek en. So in this passage, where the MEANS function
of 'en' is stressed, I translate it with by,
by means of, agency of, with hopefully enough repetition for the
reader to track those nuances. For Paul
repeats the same word, to exploit semantic range. That's a mainstay rhetorical style
pan-Bible.
Greek verb proorizw
is better and more literally translated, fore-order. Plan.
That's Paul's point, too. A Plan
is what you WILL and what you PROVIDE, with no connotation of forcing. 'Order' or 'ordination' connotes approval of
that Plan. There is no implication of
forcing. In fact, quite the opposite: any
plan has contingencies for events that don't conform to the plan. Hence contingencies that violate the plan are
not only assumed to occur, but have backup plans associated with them. That's the idea here. One might prefer 'predetermine' as the
translation. But even that doesn't have
the breadth of 'foreordain' in English, which we all know means a predicted
outcome that is approved and provided for, not something
imposed upon the recipient.
Think of it
as insurance. You buy an
insurance policy which (pretend) simultaneously insures that if you die, your
heirs get money; if you are disabled,
you'll be well taken care of for life;
if you need a loan, you can automatically get it; if you need certain expenses paid, you'll get
that money for those expenses. Pretty
neat policy, huh.
Now notice
something: the policy just sits
there. It doesn't force those things
to happen to you, but provides funds
for those contingencies. And, it's approved in advance, so you know
you can trust it, the issuer has already calculated the costs, Put Them On
Deposit.
That's what proorizw
means. All the costs associated with a
given plan, including all contingencies which the Grantor will act on; and most importantly, proorizw means
these contingencies and their costs are Paid In Advance, and On Deposit, for
the contingency of usage. None of that provision,
forces those contingencies to occur.
You have
such an insurance policy, aka Salvation. Christ paid it all in advance, and the payment
itself was a planned thing in eternity past.
The hitch was, would He Freely Succeed, once Here and on the Cross? Else, there would be no funds. But He did, and you have this policy PAID BY
HIM. Not, forcing you to use it. Not, forcing Him to use it. He contracted to do it, however any contract
can be broken. Yet "in Love",
"by agency of Love", He will honor that contract. See the difference?
English
'predestine' connotes a forcing that is not in the Greek. Sadly,
theology prefers the harsher 'predestine' with all its English undertones of
no-free-will, fate, Hindu karma, etc.
I think 'predestine' shouldn't be used, given the theological shackles
with which it has been bound.
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Second
clause: Greek huiothesia gets scant attention, in
theology. We but mouth it. Paul uses a culturally-loaded word,
here. Rights of Firstborn Son. Inheritance rights. In Roman custom, there was but ONE heir;
everyone else got specific bequests out from the testator's estate. Often, the heir had the right to overturn
those bequests. So all who were
junior, were beholding to the Heir for their inheritance, as well as to the
Testator.
Point: WE SHARE IN ALL CHRIST IS AND HAS. My pastor stressed that, when
exegeting this verse.
Point: if we Christians
only grasped how VAST is our inheritance, we'd study Bible deeply.
You inherited a bizillion dollars, in
Christ. Do you know how to access your
vast wealth in Him? Do you realize, Prayer means you can Ask Anything In His Name and He will do it,
Jn. 14:13f; 15:16; 16:23f? So now the
flipside: if you do not ask, then you are responsible for fallow wealth. Stingy servant with the napkin (Luke 19:20), you will be punished for not
using 1 John 1:9 (an asset, Eph 1:7, 14), for not growing in Grace (2Pet 3:18), for not learning and living on Bible.
For the Heir DID do those things, Luke 2:40, Matthew 4:4, Deut 8:3!
Just start thinking of yourself as the
richest person in history. For, that's
what you are. In Christ. Once you recognize this and take
it seriously, you'll get serious about Bible.
For it tells you what you have, and how to use it; and baby,
you're in deep doo-doo if you don't use your wealth. End Commercial Message.
Third clause: Greek eudokia is often translated good pleasure. Paul
dramatically parallels it with the two bouletai uses in Isaiah
53:10's LXX, which is usually translated 'delight' or 'please'. 'Delight' is better, so I used it.
Thus begins the first of three subsevened
anaphora, Drama Greek rhetorical bookends: this one,
'contains' the Wealth Father put into Christ on our behalf. Wealth is
classy. So you need [Bible!] classes, to
learn how to use it. So click here, for the eudokia anaphora. See also Note h, and the intertwined chronology, in Appendix
1.
Fourth
clause: Greek thelematos isn't merely Will, but Purpose.
Every time you will something, there's a reason (good or bad, right or wrong) behind your
will. For every will is a decision based
on Something You Will. Get that
order.
o
You have
content.
o
You decide ON that
content.
o
At no point is the
content, deciding on you.
o
So you are
responsible for whatever you decide, and
o
you are never
constrained by the content.
o
Much more so, God.
o
His Purpose is
first an Act of Will, Decided upon.
o
So you can never
divorce purpose from will, nor will from purpose;
o
but you can always
divorce both from Content,
o
since Will
determines how Content will be valued.
So God's Purpose and Decision isn't forced on
Him by a) what He knows, or b) what He is. HE CHOOSES FREELY, at all times. All that, is inside the meaning
of thelematos. And it should give
you a great deal of comfort:
o
God isn't choosing
you because of you (that's content),
o
nor will He reject
because of you (more content),
o
nor did He devise
this Plan because of you (more content),
o
nor does He remain
faithful because He must (content of Attributes).
o It's all 100% God and 100% Voluntary At All Times. [See:
God truly is Sovereign, Theos Thelematos. Over His Attributes,
not 'constrained' by them. That childish Calvinist notion of
'constrained' needs to go to the dungheap, in the 21st century.]
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First Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
eis
epainon.. doxzes autou.
Father Glorifies
Christ
by ordaining us BE
Christ's Glory..
Here we also meet a second nested anaphora Paul uses: the epainon.
It is nested partly inside the eudokian anaphora. So the first Asset in the eudokian
asset portfolio, is the greatest. By Divine Decree, We will be THE Glory of
Christ Himself. It's
shocking, until you respect the fact that God
shouldn't settle for lesser-thans. So, He doesn't. So, we won't BE lesser-than Christ. By Divine Decree! Bride should be worthy of Her Husband. God can do anything. So, He does EVERYTHING.
God is Infinite.
So, we must be also: "be ye
Perfect", Christ said. You don't spend time on trailer trash, so God
will not. But we are trailer
trash, compared to Him. So, He did
something about it. Salvation is only the beginning.
This first asset tells you the past-hidden plan from the getgo: ye are Gods, John 10:34-36. The Son
of God is the CopyBook, and we WILL BE made copies of Him. By Divine Decree.
Not equally, for we don't equally choose to use our eudokian
portfolio. But, in
aggregate, as a fitted hierarchy, each to his own self-selected pattern, will
be THE Glory of Christ. Some of us (very very few, maybe 1000 in all history) will be
kings. The rest, will forever be Royal
Peasants who didn't learn to live on Word as Christ did, but learned other
things (works, rituals, people). So, they don't have the Thinking
Needed To Rule. So, they will be ruled.
But even the lowest among us will be light-years superior to all the
human achievements and satanic achievements in history, combined. What's lauded down here is despised even by demons, up
there.
And rightfully so, for our ideas of spirituality are
despicable. God expelled
the Jews for far less rebellion, than ours.
Daniel 9's confession of Israel's history of rejecting God, is doubly
true, for us. We have so much more than
she had, as you will soon see. Assets
we ignore or twist, to make ourselves important to ourselves.
Christians down here pride themselves on their faith. Meaning, of course, that God doesn't
deserve it. You realize, I hope,
that when people pride themselves on what they do, it means they hate that very
activity, and seek pride as a solace. So when people make a big stink about
THEIR faith, denomination, practices -- they advertise that they hate
those very things. They advertise, to
get compensation. Because, they feel
they aren't getting any.. from God.
When you love someone or something, in your mind nothing you ever do is
good enough. So you never crow about
it. If you managed to do something well,
you are grateful, not resentful. You
don't expect anyone's approval, for you never have your own. You constantly strive to improve, because you
LOVE what you're trying to achieve so much, all you want to do is.. more of the
same. You'd do it for free, you'd even
prostitute yourself if need be, to do it.
Love is like that.
Hatred, by contrast, always feels it gives more than it gets. So is constantly seeking recognition,
approval, and magnifies little goods as if they were monumentally
valuable. Because, to hatred, everything
self does is too much for what it gets in return. Not receiving the return it deems
appropriate, it goes to pride, comforting the self on what sacrifices were made
for no gain. Even a cup of water in
Jesus' name is given high status. And,
that's as high as Hatred is willing to go.
Such is the history of Christianity.
So for God to want to make
us into His Son's Glory is warranted, for HE deserves it -- but the very idea is unfathomable, just the
same.
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o Meanwhile, we preen over how humble we are to insist how low we are. How arrogant! It's a cop-out, really. An excuse to be a peasant.
o So, these majority-rules peasants of
Irrevocable Eternal Royal Birthright, gauge their worth by how well the
puny world lauds them,
o their degrees or peer recognition,
o hushed tones and 'oh brother',
o how many they 'converted';
o and they call their activities all sorts of sickeningly arrogant names,
like 'soul winning'. Oh? YOU win souls for God? Should he bow and scrape in gratitude to you? Yecch.
o They pride themselves on how nice they are to people, but James condemned
it. Christ condemned it even more.
o Christians down here pride themselves on whether they can spout Bible,
o give to charity,
o and they make sure to pat themselves on the back for every little good
deed they do.. while the angels, vomit to watch. Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who the
HELL are you! the demon literally said to the seven self-righteous sons of
Sceva, Acts 19:15. [My pastor was particularly fond of reciting that verse. Made the prim folk in the congregation,
wince.]
o Christians pride themselves on their doctrinal fights, with those most
heretical, calling everyone else Heretic!
o Christians take to politics, when Christ warned against that, and Revelation
17 made it clear that Church in politics is a harlot.
o Christians account themselves spiritual if they sing rah-rah Jesus
songs -- because oh, there are a dozen
verses out of TEN THOUSAND ON LEARNING TO THINK BIBLE -- well, those dozen
sing verses must be the spiritual life!
o So they gauge spirituality by how they feel,
o and they think they are spiritual giants if they can recite Psalm 23.
o They pass judgment on those whose (usually sexual) sins differ, in order
to feel superior.
o They argue about Saturday or Sunday, wearing hats or dancing, is it
Yeshua or Jehovah or Yahweh;
o and, like Tom Lehrer sang.. everybody hates the Jews.
In short, it's a sandbox, Christianity.
All chirpy all mistaking morality as spirituality (lol even the Muslims
are largely moral); and in short, FLUNK is their report card. Assets
Fallow.
But even so, when the balloon goes up, they will be to however small a
diamond-faceted extent -- a true Glory of Christ. Maybe one-quarter carat of the Karat Who was
Garroted to the Cross, but still genuinely reflecting Him. Even Him.
Father would have it so; and so it shall ever be.
So the values you have now, will
reverse. Up there, ONLY CHRIST will be
interesting to you. By your free
will choice. Okay, but what will you
have to give to Him? To express your
love? Nuthin', if you didn't use these
assets. Someone else will have them, and
you'll be under that someone else, mighty grateful and happy, but.. with
nothing but a smile. That's why Christ
said, get rich in Doctrine, 'and all these things [material needs] will be
added to you. Yeah, forever. Literal material wealth: for the ruled need
it. For, all they ever learned down here
were body ideas, slapping God's name on everything they wanted, to feel holy.
So they never learned the spiritual life.. which is To Think
Royally.
So this topmost benefit, Made Into the Very
GLORY OF CHRIST -- will be your heart's desire. With no
matching physical assets, if you didn't learn and live on Bible. As usual, when God makes great
promises, there's a horrific flipside: you'll
wish you went after Bible with all your life, once you're dead. But it will be too late. No punishment, but
nothing atop your naked salvation, either.
And you'll be happy. But low. Bet you don't want that future...
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So now, to these Assets. The epainon anaphora being nested
within with the eudokian anaphora, tells you juridical origin. In short, due to the eudokian anaphora, the epainon
anaphora occurs. As shown in verse 5's note, eudokia references the WILL. Moreover, Paul makes sure you know eudokia
relates to the Isaiah 53:10 contract between Father and Son, via the cognate boulen
in Eph1:11, thus tying to bouletai (twice) in Isaiah 53:10's LXX.
Greek epainon needs clarification. Technically it's the sum of epi+ainos;
on the surface, it means 'good report' about someone. The 'someone' is put in the genitive
case. But 'good report' doesn't convey
the meaning, here. When you ARE a praise, it means you REFLECT
the object, yourself. [See Thayer's
lexicon for epainon, which notes for Ephesians 1:12 that we ARE the
praise. That distinction is very
important to the shocking meaning of this anaphora.]
So someone looking at you, admires the object you represent; for you resemble that object. Thus, the person looking at you, is
doing the praising. Not, you doing
it. All you do, is breathe. Example:
when people in the OT saw an angel, they would often mistake the angel for God,
and would fall flat on their faces, etc. The angel didn't do any praising
of God, the angel gave a message. But
the very glory of the angel made the one seeing him, think of God. That's the meaning of epainon,
here. We
will so totally reflect Christ's very Glory, we will seem to BE Him. Way higher than, angels (theme of Hebrews 1-2, 1John 3:2).
Unlike the eudokian anaphora, which is
dramatically complex, This epainon anaphora is spectacularly simple. Here's how it works.
If you said 'Give me Christ or give me death', you replaced 'liberty'
with Christ; you would make someone
smile, if they knew the original Patrick Henry quote. Paul makes this same 'substitution', to
convey astonishing Bible truth. The exchange denotes how the replaced
words are fulfilled. Look:
As we saw in the Outline, the epainon
anaphora is about how God the Father
Glorifies Christ, how He ordains Church to Glorify Christ, and how the Holy
Spirit Glorifies Christ. As a result, Father and Spirit are
glorified. Really shocking. What makes it shocking is the way Paul
makes small changes in the Greek words. These changes make deft points
about HOW Christ is glorified. The
structure is a dramatic tic tac toe. In
Greek drama you drop verbs, and instead use nouns and participles, as Paul
now does, here:
Verse 6:
eis
epainon doxzes tes charitos autou.
Verse 12:
eis to einai hemas eis epainon doxzes autou.
Verse 14:
eis
epainon tes doxzes autou.
The bolded text tells you a story: how Isaiah 53:12, gets
done. Keywords epainon
and doxzes are used in Isaiah 53:1-2.
Idea that His Glory wasn't appreciated while He was here, and the 'good
report' of the prophets and believers, was likewise rejected.
So, verse 6,
the Glory of His Grace will be used
verse 12, to create us AS His Glory, which Reflects Him. Hence, a good report of Him.
So, verse 14, we are made by the Holy Spirit into THE Glory of
Him.
(In English, to get the force of 'tes' in verse 14, you should put THE all
in caps and make it really big.)
Second
Clause: Sometimes repeating words in Greek is elegant, so Paul uses both charitos
and charitow, together. So the
only English equivalent was 'graced us out', which in English is less formal,
but more vivid. Paul's vivid, here.
Third
Clause: "In the Beloved". Greek en
= by means of by agency of with, and Paul means them, too: all prepositions, Him. He uses prepositions as bullet points,
meter divisions. Genitive's root idea
is belonging-to. So Him to us, we to
Him.
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Paul meter-maps Isaiah 53:9, here.
He also tags the other 28's (see Note E and Pregnancy 1b
for the verses) in
concert. So we know exactly what he
means, in Ephesians 1:7. No guesswork.
Every one of those 28-syllable paragraphs in Psalm 90 and
Isaiah 53, are on your sin and His Redeeming You. So what does that redeeming,
mean? Well, per those metered
paragraphs, ya got two kinds of dying.
One, you die angry at God, so God mirrors your own anger back at you, so
you come to know the 'anger' of God; two, you die wise and happy, knowing
you'll see Him in a few minutes. Not
afraid. Not angry. For, you know He redeemed you.
Second Asset of your
eudokian portfolio,
REDEMPTION: ten apolutrwsin.
'Redemption' is the substitution of one item for
another.
Christ
substituted His Own Life for ours.
Have you ever seen a coupon? You can either get whatever's pictured on
the coupon, or you can "redeem" it for a certain (usually small) amount
of cash. Just look on any coupon's fine
print. In America of the 1950's, it was
a craze for grocery and hardware stores to give you 'Green Stamps'. They looked just like postage stamps, and
you'd get 10 or so every time you shopped.
Then you pasted them into books; and when you got enough books full of
the things, you could REDEEM them for items in the S&H catalog. Took like a bizillion stamps to get a
'free' kitchen knife, but it was fun.
Everyone likes getting something for free. Except that it wasn't really
free. It cost the retailers hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and it took a lot of TIME to paste those stamps into
books. So you ended up paying for the
stamps via grocery (etc.) prices, for where do THEY get the money to pay for
the stamps they give away, except from sales?
And then you paid double, with the time spent pasting...
Salvation redemption is just the
opposite. You DO nothing. Christ DID everything, Romans 5:8, Gal
3:18-22. So Salvation Redemption means you
have a LIFETIME COUPON -- and your life never ends -- a LIFETIME COUPON of
money. He paid it, you have it. Like, a bank account. Now of course if you never find
out the account number, then all that wealth just keeps on being on deposit in
the Universal Bank of Heaven, doing you no good at all.. until you DIE to this
world, and go home to His.
So then, how do you access your
wealth in Him, exchanging (redeeming!) your puny ideas of life, for His? Ahhh. You realize, right, that the quality of your
life depends on the quality of your thinking?
Bad thinking makes people sick, poor, get into trouble. So if you had competent thinking, the quality
of your life would improve. Better job,
better decisions, better everything.
Whether rich or poor. Whether
sick or well. Your life is only as good
as your thoughts are. Petty thinking,
jealous thinking, nasty thinking makes for an unhappy life. Wealth of any kind gets spent mostly on
trying to fix problems, and inevitably one finds out that the intended fixes,
were just loose band-aids or another buggy computer program. Very upsetting.
Bible alone can cure it all, and truly make you happy, no matter what
your circumstances. That's True Wealth,
and why people even seek wealth. But
only Bible can cure the SOUL. But you
first gotta BELIEVE that you have the wealth.
Then you gotta BELIEVE it's important to find out what it is. Then you gotta Study Your Divine Assets
Manual, so your LIFETIME
COUPON doesn't DAM up and you say, 'Damn! What good is this Bible?' But you open up that Bible, and it's all
words words more fuzzy words. So let's
first cover Accessing your Divine Asset Management Account (ADAMA), so Bible
won't stay a DAM gathering earth-dust while it sits on your coffee table -- so
people will think you read it, of course -- because you rightly have
trouble giving a damn about its fuzzy
words, the many denominational fights, etc. ad nauseam.
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Redemption means You CAN name your sins to
God. Just NAME them. You got ticked off in
traffic. "Dad, I sinned!" You got ticked off at Windows. "Dad, I sinned!" You worried about some bill. "Dad I sinned!" You felt guilty. "Dad, I sinned!" It becomes as quick and natural as breathing,
to REALIZE that 1000 times a day you have some thought which God would never
have, so it's a sin. Anything you do
with your body, of itself isn't the sin: sin is what you THINK. Body just obeys THOUGHT.
So it's a big deal, to Just Name It And Move On, not even stopping to
feel bad about it, for -- guilt is a sin, too! Feeling bad doesn't ATONE for squat. So you just committed the sin of
HALLUCINATING that how you feel, accomplished something. NAME IT,
move on! You got this LIFETIME COUPON, see: it never expires. So naming
sin means Dad writes a check to FIX YOU, from what Son paid on your behalf 2000
years ago! Imagine what INTEREST
accrues on His Payment, 1900+ years before your birth!
Our use of Redemption is far simpler than
what the OT people got; they also had to
o go to the hassle and expense of finding blemishless animals,
o dragging them to the local Levite priest,
o putting their hands on the animal,
o Naming The Sin
o while the priest cut the animal's throat.
o Then blood,
o more waiting,
o the smell,
o and you took some of it home
o or ate it there in front of the priest,
(often, not always, depended on what kind of sin it
was).
o And you did all that, because it was DINNER. With God.
Restored to Peace with God, signified by eating
the animal that just died 'for' you, picture of Messiah-to-Come.
If you're at all familiar with eating in the ancient world, you have to
know that meat was hard to come by.
People lived on milk, fish, cheese, grains, vegetables. Very small amounts, too. But here you are, every time you sin, EATING
THE BEST MEAT. And you just know, people
sinned 100 times a day or more. Life was
even more annoying for them, than for us.
Still, it was a hassle. Took at
least an hour, not to mention, waiting in line behind all the other sinners
with their stinking lambs, goats, doves, and the doo-doo those animals would
excrete.
So contrast this: Redemption for Church
means that since Christ is the Lamb of God and He paid, there are no more
animals to bring, and you are your own priest, 1Pet2:5,
9; 2Peter 1:9 (in Greek, translators forgot to translate labwn, lol); Hebrews 10. Takes a nanosecond to think toward Father and
admit you sinned, even if you forgot what ones and when, you know you did, so
you admit it. I use 1John1:9 a bizillion
times a day.
Of course, many Christians think it's too hard, hallucinate that they
have to keep TRACK of their sins, and they feel bad about doing that, so they
invent excuses. Like the hallucinated
idea that here in Ephesians 1:7, you're forgiven of all your sins so you
don't need to tell God you sinned, anymore. Okay, then you're drawing funds from your own account down here, for the Holy
Spirit won't fill a defiled Temple. You.
For your online banking with UBH requires 1John1:9 as the passcode. No tickee, no washee. So you're not clean. So you're not filled with the Spirit. So you're INCOMPETENT at reading Bible. So you are DAMNED up, and you'll be punished
for it, Colossians 3:25.
[Nerd Note: There's a crazy
'school' of 'scholars' who maintain that Greek aphesin (next clause) is
appositional to apolutrwsin, here.
They clearly aren't using 1John1:9, so that's why they are utterly incompetent. For just as in the OT prospectively, for us
retrospectively, Christ's Payment means you CAN name sins, but you still MUST do it, to be back in fellowship with
God. David
explained that, in Psalm 32:5 and 66:18, which is reasonably clear in translation. I did a whole playlist of 1John1:9 videos
showing the many categories of OT verses.
So naming sins is based ON Redemption, and is a function OF it. Here in Eph 1:7, you have an Attic double accusative of cause and result,
not koine appositional usage: my pastor stressed that 1000 times. Paul's language is Greek drama, with DROPPED
VERBS. Very obvious. And all the OT confirms that meaning. Moreover, anyone sane can read 1John1:9 and
know that, since JOHN confessed the same thing (we we we
we we we -- hello?), putting The Funding BASIS in 1John1:7.]
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Idea? Redemption means Forgiveness In Time is FUNDED -- a) so you CAN name your sins, b) so
you can GROW UP spiritually, not merely be saved as a newborn.
OT saved like David, Moses, etc. all sinned. We have their sins recorded. David even wrote about how if he did NOT name
his sin, God made him SICK, Psalm 32:5, 66:18!
We just don't need the animal ritual anymore, for the Lamb of God,
Paid. Hebrews 6-10 also warns that NOT
admitting sin -- results in destruction (subtheme since
Hebrews 2:1).
You neglect your salvation assets (Heb 2:1), if you don't use 1 John 1:9.
John used it, "we" in 1John1.
Like, David, Moses -- for which Moses wasn't allowed to enter the Land,
Deut 32. So we don't enter our
inheritance, if we won't name our sins to God.
Babies we are, and babies we stay.
Saved but naked, 1Cor3. The
adults (atsumim, in Hebrew Isa53:12) get the inheritance instead, to
spend on the babies. The babies, have
nothing. Forever.
No one learns Bible in a state of sin. A state of sin exists even after the sin is
committed, UNTIL YOU NAME IT to God. And if you don't remember, just say I
SINNED, DAD! You needn't be anal, keeping sin lists, agonize here!
Christianity remains in the theological playpen for 2000 years,
for Christians won't use 1John1:9.
Can't properly read Bible, without it.
So, they don't. So, they lose
their faith. So, they get punished.
So now let's talk about what it means, to GROW UP, 2Peter
3:18. Well, if you use 1John1:9 regularly, what's
redeemed? Your thinking. Sin isn't your biggest problem,
but its aftermath. Sin is an addiction. As with any other addiction, you CAN say
'no'; but your desire increased with
prior repetition. So it's harder to say
no. Sin is inherently a desire to fit in with the world. Individual sins
themselves are all rooted in that urge. fitting-in. Moral
sins, or immoral sins, all try to FIT IN.
Your body thrives on repetition, familiarity. It can't tell the difference between
repeating something good, or something bad.
To it, repetition of any kind is good.
Repetition breeds comfort, fluency, competence and skill. So if you repeated a bad thing, its
attractiveness grows; a built-in urge to
do it again, repeats upon the next instance of associated past
repetition.
Each successive repetition, makes the next one, easier; more fun;
more automatic. And so it is with
sin, too. So it is with learning and
living on Bible, too. But you can't learn Bible in a state of sin.
So: naming sins, is important. You
can't access this Divine Redemption Thinking from Bible, except while
you're filled with the Spirit; and He won't
fill, a defiled Temple.
That access is phenomenal: 'Filling', means Filling you with Divine
Perspicacity. My pastor called it
"Spiritual IQ", and he's right.
I'm evidence of it. God makes you
smarter as a result of 1John1:9. See, this is a real asset you can use. And you need it, because you need Divine
Smarts, to grasp Bible. So, you can
sometimes grasp in minutes, what takes a scholar, a year or more to
research. Why? Because the Holy Spirit Connects the Dots,
John 14:26. Even a great scholar who's
not using 1John1:9, is trying to connect them on his own power. So, usually he runs around in circles,
grappling with 90 other scholars of 90 other opinions; he's always forced to
hedge. By contrast, in seconds the Holy Spirit can
make the right connected verses come to your mind, John 14:26. Saves you time, angst,
controversy. Try
it. Use 1John1:9 like breathing, for a
month. Daily. Try to make it a habit. Repeat repeat repeat and it will become as
natural to use the verse, as brushing your teeth.
Then you'll appreciate what Paul means at the end of this verse 7, by
'ploutos'. Seriously. Try it yourself. Words won't suffice; you have to see it in your own life, to know. Use 1John1:9 like breathing, make it a
habit. Watch what happens.
That is the heart of redemption: you are REDEEMED from 'your empty way of
life', as Peter put it, 1Pet1:18. See, all the world has in its mind, is the
world. It has no higher understanding. But you do -- thanks to Redemption. Whether you access this higher way of life,
however, is up to you. Greek word mataios
in Peter (and elsewhere) means 'futile', 'empty', and signifies the
chasing-after-windmills quality of this life.
Chasing your tail, really, for whatever you gain in this life always
bites you at the end.
Instead, the way God thinks, can become the way you
think. Funded on the Cross, paid by
Christ: THAT is True Redemption. Your sin nature will buck it
constantly, theme of Romans 6-8. But you
now have an option for a happiness INDEPENDENT of the world. Independent of circumstances, people, what
you have or lack. Again, try using
1John1:9 repeatedly and daily for a month.. see what happens.
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Second
Clause, reason why you have
redemption: Christ paid. Not with physical blood, but with His
Thinking, Isaiah 53:11's bedato yatsdiq.
'Blood' was what circulated in the animal. Its throat was cut. That cut off the pain, but the poor thing
bled to death. A soul has no corpuscles.
The 'blood' of a soul, is thought. Sins
are thoughts. So only THINKING 'blood' can pay for sins. Just as Isaiah explains: by means of His Mastery of Truth
Knowledge, He makes Righteous. Not,
by bleeding to death.
Third Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
Forgiveness-of-sins: ten aphesin. Sin Insurance.
You name your sin to God, and forget it.
God authorizes the release of funds, as it were, to
FIX you.
Forgiveness
is FUNDED by what Christ paid Father, 2000 years ago.
You are always a Child of God, saved forever. So, there are heavenly living expenses. You live.
You sin. The sin damages your
soul. Now, if your kid needed lunch
money, you'd not say, "well I have it in my bank account" but give
him NOTHING, right?
Okay, so your kid had to ADMIT he needed money. Even so, your Heavenly Father waits for you
to admit you sinned, to justify spending Christ's past payment FOR you, ON
you. Because, your kid might try to get
the money somewhere else. Because, you
might try to 'pay' for your sin, yourself.
Always failing, of course.
You are Christ's property and his 'kid', as
well. His Payment to Father is to be
spent ON you, Isaiah 53:10 contract. But
it won't be spent on you, if you won't use 1John1:9. So you name sins to God and He
what? "purifies you from all
malfeasance (literal translation 1John1:9b)." Insurance policy. Errors and Omissions. Damages paid when they occur. Funded prior, paid now.
Paid to do what?
Develop you spiritually. BUY THE
WORLD, Time. Hopefully
you saw on pages 3 and 4, how vital it is to the world's weal, that you grow
spiritually. Using 1John1:9, is the
greatest and only good deed a human can do.
For only God, is good. So guess
how much God must spank you if you won't use it? YOUR FAULT, if the world is hurt by your not
growing!
That's what ten aphesin means. Sin insurance. All the premiums were paid by Christ 2000
years ago. So USE THE POLICY, 1John1:9. Or you'll never ever
understand Bible, you spit on Christ's Payment;
you hate people, too, for God will only bless them if He grows,
YOU! So you want God to curse THEM, if
you won't use 1John 1:9!
Use The Credit Card =>
(a teenager made for me in 2008)
Fourth
Clause: Note the clever sandwiching placement here. Palindromic, goes forward or backward or
stands alone. Ties back to the first epainon
clause, in verse 6.
The entire passage is like this; each clause stands alone, both
poetically and syntactically, yet there is more. Yeah, always more! And to imagine, this Paul guy was saddled
between two praetorian guards under house arrest in Rome, awaiting Trial. He just DICTATED this right out of his
mouth! So
Paul's flow and thinking here, the awesome GENIUS of it, is a DEMONSTRATION of
the very ploutoi he's talking
about. Living example, genius writing,
easy flow -- Holy Genius, wholly enjoyable!
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First
Clause: Greek perisseuw means to overflow like a flood you very much like:
someone 'flooding' you with a bizillion dollars, for example; opening up the
cargo section of a mid-air C-31 transport, the money only raining
down on you. So the usual translations
are fine, and I used my pastor's, though I'm not too fond of the word
'superabounds'. Too churchy.
Fourth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Every
Class of Wisdom and Clear Thinking:
en pasei sophiai kai phronesei
God authorizes Release of
Christ's Thinking Funds, to Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
When we read words like 'wisdom' and -- I forget how translators phrase phronesei,
maybe 'sober judgment' or something equally appalling -- when we read these
words, we sigh in self-righteousness and learn nothing. These words were specifically defined in
Greek culture, made famous by Plato and the other philosophers. To the Greeks, it was all about pleasure on
the one hand, and intellectual stimulation on the other. Wisdom to them was a thinking thing, and phronesis
meant just that: clear thinking. An aphron was a fuzzbrain, someone
incapable of clear thinking, hence the English translation, 'fool'.
So Paul is using very precise terminology here, and in
Greek to Greeks. He's
carefully building on what they already know, and since Ephesians is modeled after Euripides' play
Ion, he's weaving in a famous myth of Greek origin to show them the REAL Origin
of Time, the Real God; so that believers can
successfully communicate the Real Plan of Time, to their fellow Greeks. It's an awesome thing he does, here.
This is also a function of Redemption funding. Here, Paul focuses on the CONTENT of what you
can know. Redemption
itself is a series of funds, so Paul now must list them severally. All of them, subsets of epainon which
is a subset of eudokia. The eudokia
bookends are about purpose; the epainon bookends, result; but in
between, what OPERATION occurs?
So your second asset in the eudokia portfolio,
Redemption, itself has subsets which alike are separate portfolios of their
own.
o APHESIN, Forgiveness-of-Sin assets. You get these each time you use
1John1:9, even if you don't learn and live on Bible. You won't grow, but you are still fixed
enough so you CAN grow. You avoid
illness this way, so USE THE VERSE.
o You grow, as a result of learning
and living on Bible between sins. In
what? WISDOM
and CLEAR THINKING. Bad
decisions come from bad thinking; an
unhappy life comes from bad thinking.
Like a bad computer program, it's difficult to unravel bad
thinking. Bible in your head will
reprogram you, as you consent to learning and living, on it.
o So this is a real asset helping
you in every
category of your life. Hence the pasei, 'every
class'. Whether you're inside or
outside, Bible class. For God hears you
24/7; it won't be pleasing to Him to
hear you think badly. So, He provides a
way to think well. As well as His Son.
o You need wisdom, to rule.
You need to be clear-headed, to rule. It requires much repetition of, 'How do I
apply Bible to this email, this grocery list, this appointment?' For, that's
how you should be thinking, were you wise and clear-headed. This is
Christ's Thinking (next verse), so you get to practice living as Christ did; He was always thinking toward
Father. So every decision had pro's and
con's; and it's a Ruling, to decide between them, as we saw back with the first
eudokia.. thelematos clause, in verse 5.
o So repeating 1John1:9 and
repeating learning and living on Bible will transform your life in a very short
time, less than a year. Even a month. Begin to use the verse habitually, and study
under whomever is your right pastor (ask God who that is). Do that, see what happens.
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Fifth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Thinking
like Christ:
ynwrisas
..to musterion
God authorizes Biggest
Release of Christ's Thinking Funds, to Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
With this verse, Paul concludes his sequential
meter-mapping of Isaiah 53:9-11, in order. He also finishes
mapping to Psalm 90:1-5a. [How clever, to break the 63 into 56+7, tying to BOTH Moses and Isaiah. For at 56, the sum 28+56=84. Oh!
And since Christ is the Last Adam, Paul ties to the first clause in Psalm 90:5 @7 syllables, which
begins the Adamic voting period 'testimony', is about Flood as Divine Judgment,
announced at least 1000 years in advance, by Enoch. At the same
time, 56+7=63, which is 14 short of the 84;
Moses deliberately broke his meter that way (verse 3 ending at 63): for
the Millennium depends on the 14, first completing. Further, Moses didn't subparse the verse at
14, but as 12 and 9, which of course is three sevens; clever way to say Israel will go
overbudget. I didn't see all this at
first, as I mis-parsed Eph1:9 as one unit of 63 syllables. When
auditing eudokian anaphora's meter, however, I learned I had mis-parsed,
so learned of this 56+7 construction.
See: Bible is self-auditing; even
shows how to parse the very syllables, so you can check your elision
assumptions!]
First
Clause: see End Notes b and g. Here
Paul introduces the grand theme of KNOWING CHRIST, the goal of the spiritual
life. Observe that you are to KNOW
Someone, not do something. Paul sets up his prayer in Eph3:15-19, and
the 'destination of life', Greek verb katantaw in Eph4:12, to get the same Maturity
as Christ's Own, Eph4:13. That's the
Rapture criterion of the Body of Christ, and your own personal criterion
for the length of your life.
Paul got there, 2Tim4:6-8; so, like Enoch, his life was over. So we can get there, too.
The word 'mystery' is
new vocabulary, but the concept is thoroughly OT in origin. The typical OT idea was 'hidden'. Paul updates it to 'mystery'
because the term is a culturally-loaded word, in Greek. Thus Paul
UNITES Hebrew and Greek concepts when he invokes the Hidden Understanding
Promise in the 'New Covenant' to Israel, recorded in Jeremiah 31:31-34. The Temple was the stand-in for the Temple to
Come; when He came, He'd be REVEALED,
and His Thinking would therefore also be Revealed, so everyone could get it. 'God with us' was to become 'God in us' --
but until that God the Son took on Humanity, there was no way to GET that
Thinking. For, we have souls, and until
His Own SOUL existed and was built, humans couldn't get that much intimacy. So that's why they had to make do with
angelic visits, rituals, etc. As we can see, they were amazingly skilled with
Scripture, just the same. But the level promised
them was much higher, as it becomes easier to COPY His Soul Structure, once
that Structure exists. Written Bible, is
that Copy. Structure of Principles and
connections. Just as promised.
So that's why Paul uses
the term 'hidden' and 'mystery'. HIDDEN IN CHRIST. Now, revealed, because He came, was
developed, and now has Won, for All Time.
So now, you can know Him intimately. And you come to know Him intimately, only one
way: through Scripture. OT and NT.
Completed now. No dreams,
visions, experiences, etc. That was all
kid stuff, and only demons play those games, now. Holy Spirit only uses Bible. And if you use 1John1:9, learn-and-live-on-Bible,
you'll see how phenomenal a life, it is.
You eventually can think as well as Paul writes, here. I know.
It happens to me often. I
recognize what's happening to Paul when he writes. I've even seen it happen to others who've
only been in the spiritual life, for a year or two! The 'secret' is to use 1John1:9 like
breathing, learn and live on Bible under whomever God appointed personally for
you, as your own pastor; then use Bible as
you know it. Holy Spirit RECALLS Scripture and how it
applies, John 14:26. It's lightning fast. You can test this claim yourself, in your own
life.
And then you will come to know what's hidden to most people, Eph
3:15-19: Christ. Through Scripture. Really know Him. Just as God promised, ever since Jeremiah
31:31-34 (elaborated on in the Book of Hebrews).
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Of course, people like to think that being smart is something they achieved. Not God's Smarts, Rom4:1-2. And of course, even with smarts there's a
certain diligence, it's not magic. God
doesn't just bing the information into your head: it's RECALL He provides, and He CONNECTS THE DOTS. Well, if there's nothing to connect, then
nothing happens. Hence Hebrews 11:6, you
have to ask God, use 1John1:9, and study.
He makes that study supernaturally effective. But hey: some people wanna do it themselves,
and others don't want to do it at all.
In secular life, you can be ignorant or cognizant. Whatever you know, is a 'mystery' to those
who don't know it. Further, you can 'do'
a lot of things and be ignorant at the same time. Which means, someone who knows, will have
to have authority over you, since that other person knows, but you do not. The big bucks for jobs, all require
knowledge. The low bucks for jobs,
don't.
So it is even more true, since
Church's Job is To Rule, that each of us must LEARN God's Thinking. Hidden in Christ, Who pioneered our spiritual
life (favorite theme of my pastor's,
using Hebrews 12:2's Archegos to explain this). Now He is revealed (Greek phanerow), His Thinking can be copied into us, a kind of DDNA as we learn and live on Bible, 1Peter 2:21; and in 2Pet2-3, we have the dire warning of
what happens, when we don't do that. [When I first
realized this 'DDNA' idea from something my pastor said in his year 2000
(summer?) exegesis of Phili 1:20, explaining megalunw -- I excitedly
wrote up a windy but still useful webseries, starting with http://www.brainout.net/DDNA.htm
. Will have to edit that series, for
wordiness. But the content is okay. My pastor taught the same subject for 50
years, with similar jargon.]
Bible=Christ's Thinking, remains a 'mystery' to those who
don't know it. So, God uses
them as peasants: they can
(incompetently) do the small things, like witness, give money to the poor,
endlessly debate kindergarten theology (Hebrews 6:1-6): dip or sprinkle, is God
one or three, is Christ God, do we keep the sabbath, should women
wear hats in church, how do you prove God exists, denominational
squabbles, does the Bible agree with science or contain errors,
etc. ad nauseam. Being children, they think those small things are big
things; so they pride themselves, puff up, swell up and eventually, die as
ignorant as they were re-born. It's
heartbreaking. They never learn the Real
Spiritual Life; nor will they brook being informed of it, either. They deem themselves spiritual giants,
2Cor10:12. But at least their lives
aren't wholly lived in vain, Isa54:1. Wa-tsahali,
lo-hala!
By contrast, those who learn and live on God's Word,
spend their time instead on bible. So to compensate
for the time they AREN'T busy like
peasants, the learning-Christ believers spend five seconds to PRAY; hence the poor will be kitted out, to
bustle. Christ wasn't kidding when He said,
Ask Anything in My Name and I will do it. [Jn. 14:13f; 16:26.] So,
YOU study; the peasants who won't, can do what you should NOT do.
A peasant prides himself on his lowness.
So if you refuse to be low, you are called arrogant. The peasant is the one who's arrogant. So all you can do with him, is give him
something low to do. His arrogance
competes with learning, so he doesn't learn well. He deems learning, snooty. He deems it snotty. Or, he compliments those who do learn, as
a substitute for learning, himself.
For he deems learning valuable, only
to get status, recognition or approval; the learning itself has no value, to him. He projects his prejudices onto anyone who
does learn. So the one learning will
advance, even in secular culture. So the
one not learning retards, even in secular culture. So humans end up unequal, even if of equal
innate talent. And frankly, learning is
more the product of desire than intelligence.
IF you want to learn, you will keep on doing it, even if
difficult for you. Hence, society is
filled with people of unequal status, as it is filled with people of unequal
desire to learn. The status, comes from competence
in using what you learn (ideally).
That's how it is in heaven, too. How well did you learn and live on Bible?
is the sole Reward Inquiry at the Bema, 1Cor3.
This, is warranted. No one expects
the Queen of England to sweep the floor.
She orders the floor swept, and someone else, does it. You are training for a Royal Ruling
Inheritance aka 'crown', under the King of the Universe. So your job is to learn His Thinking, not
sweep the floor!
See: the rich person orders a thing be done, five seconds.
The poor one does it, five months. Thus the poor will have employment at his own
(self-chosen) level; since he won't become rich in Christ. You don't ask kids to do adult jobs. And we train to be adults, no longer children,
Eph4:14. A child didn't pray Daniel 9. Yet even a child, can pray.
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Christ spent His Time learning Word, not hustling about
with good deeds. By the end,
only sin was a 'mystery' to Him; that
is, until Father poured out all sins in history onto Him, 2Cor5:21. So there is no mystery to learning Him, nothing about God or His Word you can't know.
All that, Paul says in this clause (and in nearly
every verse he writes).
Training in thinking requires coordination with the body, so it's not
like you sequester yourself with The Book.
You live a quasi-normal life. But
you don't value the deeds of themselves;
they are training aids, only.
When you wash the dishes, there's some doctrine you can associate,
to learn ruling better. Same with
other daily activities. And THAT is the
difference. The peasant, is all do do
dodo doo-doo. But you are using Bible as you do
whatever, and thus learning to THINK in a coordinated manner.
Different purpose. Much bigger
results. Royal, even.
So like Christ, we are to ROYALLY
spend our time LEARNING WORD, Deuteronomy 8:3 parlayed into Matthew 4:4. The devil wanted Christ to do peasant stuff there, did
you notice? Feed
the poor by making ALL the stones become bread: thus
Satan threw rocks at Christ Learning Bible, rather than eat.
'Fasting' in Mosaic Law, was to Save Time For Study. My pastor
covered that fact a bizillion times, when the topic arose during his
teaching. This is quite
understandable: even in secular life, if
you've got something to do but need food, you might grab a quick snack and eat
at the computer, in the car, etc.; or, forego eating entirely, until you get
that something, done. For eating is a
distraction, and takes time. Even in our
modern age.
But religious peasants both in OT and ever after, hating learning,
of course instead glorify the BODY ACT of not eating, to make it spiritual. Get the pun?
They won't eat Word, so glorify Not
Eating. And of course, not
eating food is no more spiritual, than eating it. So fasting was never
a spiritual thing in the Law. Rather, to bypass the hassle of preparing,
cooking, and eating food, was a convenience; and you trusted God to keep
your body alive, the meanwhile. So it was a hope
God would keep you healthy, while you learned His Word more intensively. And of course, God wants you to learn, so the
hope is justified. So when Bible records people fasting, that's
shorthand: they took time off to intensively study Word, i.e., Daniel 10
(for Darius the Mede had just died), Matthew 4.
Consequently, hate-Word-Study peasants twist the bypassing-food
convenience into a status symbol, bypassing
ho Logos, for fasting.
Hence status replaced eating Word; the peasant 'fasts' away from
it. So, God will bypass his rewards at
the Bemata, Zech 7. For We are
His Temple: we are only built, by eating Word as He did.
Jump from the Temple, Second Temptation: wow peasants
to believe in Him, in lieu of
relying on Father's Witness to His Own Son's Learning Word. Again, a body
stunt. In lieu of, spiritual gymnastics
only the Spirit can do in your head.
Barnum and Bailey, oooh and aaah, rather than shocked reverence at
Gorgeous Word.
Take over the kingdoms of the world by
zapping Satan, Third Temptation:
again, a body politic, rather than a spiritual politic. So Christ was impolitic, not to solve the
world's body problems, instead
becoming the Spiritual Head the Body should copy. Get the Royal difference?
Thus ends the first eudokian bookend. Mystery
revealed, Now in Writing, no longer hidden: to the one who Learns Word as
Christ did.
We have all spiritual blessings, Eph1:3.
Here we've seen the Body of Thinking we're to Learn,
The Very Thinking of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.
Hidden From (since He wasn't born yet)
and Drooled Over for centuries,
by millions of OT believers
.. now Revealed to us!
Ahem.. and
hence the Portfolio we have and don't use, to become like Christ.
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2nd
'bookend' in the eudokian
anaphora.
This
second bookend 'encloses' what went between it and the first bookend. At the same time, it starts a new bookend
pair, which ends verse 11. Notice the word order of this second bookend,
is REVERSED. When Bible writers reverse
the order of all or some of the same words as previously written, they BOOKEND
the passage.
The writer of Hebrews, for example, does that
with Jeremiah 31:31-34, quoting it from the LXX in Hebrews 8:8-12. He reverses the order of keywords in Hebrews
10:15-17. Peasants mistake that reversal
as an error. No, it's a rhetorical
style. In Hebrews, writer stresses the DESTINATION of Heb8:8-12, the Holy
Spirit interrupting his flow of writing, even: to make the point via reversal,
in Hebrews 10:15-17. Just as a bookend
'mirrors' in reverse, its left counterpart.
Bookending is a rhetorical device showing a full-circle
effect. First, purpose is given, and in a certain
word order. At the end of that
'paragraph' or section, the opening lines are reversed to explain that what is
'between', has now fulfilled its initial purpose. Or, how its initial purpose WILL be
fulfilled, as here.
Secondly, bookending
acts as a WALL. To wall off anything else as irrelevant or
excluded, from what's BETWEEN the bookends.
That's what Paul does here. Only those assets listed between the 'bookends' are
from God in Christ. So, he
tells you that nothing 'outside' these assets, are spiritual:
o
verse
6's epainon, Grace Glory Asset
(see epainon
anaphora)
which only God can make. Can you make
Glory? Nope.
o
verse
7's apolutrwsin, Redemption
Funds to grow you; so you can't
'redeem' your bad thinking, either;
o
verse
7's aphesin, Forgiveness-of-sins
Account you use as needed, in time; for
maybe you won't use 1John1:9, and thus retard. For apart from the Spirit, you won't grow, but
will peasantly imagine growth, 1John1:6, 8, 10.
o
verse
8's pasei sophiai kai phronesei,
'all wisdom and clear-thinking', which only GOD can 'superabound' for
you;
o
verse
9's ynwrisas to musterion,
'making known past-hidden content' of Christ; ONLY God can put
Christ's Head in your soul.
So notice: no good
deeds are listed here. Not one. Only God-deeds. So observe:
o
You
cannot glorify God yourself. God
has to do it TO you. That's epainon.
o
You
cannot redeem your self, your past, your bad habits, your failures, your
sins. God alone can fix you. This isn't a salvation question. This is a post-salvation issue of you still
being as you were before salvation: how do you grow up, now that you are
saved? You have to grow up spiritually,
just as you had to grow up physically or mentally.
o
You
cannot make yourself spiritually wise, since
o
GOD makes known the Bible. So the only way you can grasp it, is through
God. So now you know why there's so much
dissension and controversy in Christianity, and false doctrine: people are all trying to do it on their own
power, but right here from verse 9 you see GOD MUST MAKE KNOWN the
information, or it's a 'mystery' to you.
So bookending tells you that only what's INSIDE,
counts. What's outside, does not. And what's outside? Anything you can do. If you could do it, Christ wouldn't have to
pay for it. Not one of the above assets
is phrased as something you do, but rather something you HAVE or GET from
God. Only from God. Not from works, not from emotion, not from
rituals, not from any other activity humans do or attributes humans have. Got that?
Paul uses THREE eudokian
bookends, however. So this second
bookend, begins a nested sequel:
Verse 5,
eis auton kata ten
eudokian tou thelematos autou.
Verse 9 mirrors:
tou thelematos autou kata ten eudokian
autou.
Verse 11 concatenates verse 5 and 9
into one simple clause: kata ten boulen tou
thelematos autou.
So now go to verse
11's bookend in
the eudokian anaphora...
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The Meal of Christ, Set
Before Us:
proetheto en autwi
a third nested
anaphora,
First
word in this Trio, Greek proetheto, is a technical term for Temple
offering. It tells you these are Christ's
OWN spiritual assets; that God
places them In Him and thus Before You, like a meal to be eaten. This clause is soundplay on and setup for, verse 11's prothesin, Temple Shewbread. God
treats Time as a meal, and He wants that meal to be His Son's Thinking. So
this is about meal preparation, just as all Temple sacrifices,
depicted. For each of us lives on
thought, Job34:3, Matt4:4, even Proverbs 23:6:
true 'soul food'. So physical
food metaphorically represents how thoughts -- especially God's --
'taste'. So just as you present a
meal for guests, how much more, your thoughts? Ooops.
Proetheto is the
first of three passage keywords for Firstfruits Presentation. See also Verse Notes 11
and 12. Usually
translated 'purpose', verb protithemi's root connotation is to set something before someone, and
when in the middle voice as here, it's most often used for setting forth a
meal you are going to eat. That was
the entire Representation of the Temple.
So the verb shouldn't be translated 'purpose', since the first meaning
is to publicly set forth something for
consumption, i.e., look at it,
venerate it, eat it, comment on it, have it as an offer.. Vote On Him.
So 'published' is part of the
meaning, but still too short; this isn't
merely information to know. Paul
talks back to epouraniois in
Verse 3, How We Are On Public Display,
due to Our Head.
We
now have the SAME Assets Christ Had, to 'eat' for our own spiritual life. My pastor stressed that
when he exegeted Ephesians, a long doctrine he called "our Portfolio Of Invisible Assets". [I've never seen anyone else
supply such a comprehensive, fitting explanation. Ephesians usually gets short shrift, with
pastors focusing on the morality sections, making a sermon or two on being
faithful to your spouse or rearing your kids properly. WE'RE TOTALLY RICH AND ROYAL but have no clue
of our vast eternal wealth? Kill me
now.]
The spiritually immature have a
lot of tangled notions. One of them, is
that it's somehow a sin to be rich. To
be successful. To be famous. Truth is, those are tools you need, to do
something of value in the world. The
best things in life are free; but to get
those things, will cost money and time.
So the more you have of both, the more you can focus on value-added
activities.
So God means to make us
rich. This isn't a prosperity
Gospel. This is about Father Being
High and Perfect so the Standard is High and Perfect so demands High and
Perfect Wealth, to MEET THE STANDARD. A poor person can't do that. So the spiritually-poor, 99% of Christianity,
assign poor ideas of 'worship' and 'spirituality' to God, chiefly in the form
of behavioral observances, morals and good deeds. This is roughly equivalent to a trio of ants
arguing over which of them gave YOU the biggest 'ball of sugar'. That's important to ants, but it doesn't mean
a hill of beans, to you. So there they
are, all proud of themselves and fighting over whose ball of sugar is the most
'holy'. Get the point?
Divine Currency is Bible in
your head. Not sugary good
deeds. And that means WEALTH. Christ called it "true riches". If you got the latter, you can PRAY for
whatever good deeds you want done. And
the spiritually-poor will be equipped to do them, since they reject learning
Bible, in favor of body things with people -- while you the rich one, go on
learning God via God's Word.
To whom much is given, much is
expected. Muchness is a SITTING thing.
Peasants, do. Royals, think and
talk. And, that's all the Bible ever
records of Christ. Go through the
Gospels, see for yourself, Isaiah 53:11, bedato yatsdiq, by means of
Mastering Truth Knowledge, He makes Righteous! Who?
The peasants, the many. You and
me. How?
By His THINKING TRUTH.
Where? On the Cross! He didn't die physically to pay for sins;
physical death never 'paid' for anything.
Your brain can't think, once you've died.
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When a soldier dies on duty, we
honor him, and rightfully so. But the
death ended that duty. So the honor is
due to his willingness, while still alive, to keep on fighting, even TO death.
So even the soldier, doesn't die for us; he LIVED for us, even to the point
of death. That's what Isaiah 53:12,
says. Thinking thinking thinking
fighting fighting fighting even if it kills you.
It takes a long time to train,
and even in the case of a foot soldier, 90% of what he must 'do', is
THINK. Assess terrain. Gauge distance and enemy intent. Analyse what he hears. Conclude supplies and deployments. Think think think. Hurry up and wait. So all that repetition of thinking a
bizillion times, coordinating the big thinking with the little (deft!)
movements, makes a good soldier.
A
blundering hackblade painted with woad, thundering in an open field, is
easily cut down.
So we aren't peasants with
clumsy-but-impressive broadswords, now; but with the two-edged machaira. Surgery.
But 90% of us, prefer to blunder about, rather than learn. So we make good Satan-fodder. Takes years to learn how to perform
surgery. It's tough. The easy works and easy rituals, feel-good
songs, are easier than study. Yet we're
in training to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Yet we instead live like peasants,
spiritually poor, ignorant of the value, of Thinking Doctrine? Living instead on our feelings, our rah-rah
Jesus songs, on how people think of us, on morality or rituals and good
deeds? Then we're just like that ancient
Celtic warrior thinking his blue paint will protect him, that running
full-speed at a smart enemy, will frighten the enemy off. Guess again.
I don't know if you've noticed,
but in Christianity there's a 90% attrition rate. That means, only 10 out of a 100 people who
initially believe in Christ, still believe in Him by life's end. Something always happens to
'disappoint'. God didn't 'deliver' in
some key way, and the now-disgruntled believer, goes into some other religion
or becomes an atheist. Know why? No
Bible Properly Learned. Every
atheist on Youtube who tells his deconversion tale, didn't learn the Bible
properly. He was filled with false
doctrine, even on basics like the Gospel;
and so was everyone in his periphery.
So of course he came to disbelieve.
False doctrines are always silly.
But the Real Word understood, not only makes sense, but has a better
explanation you can TEST -- than anything man can counter. Guaranteed.
But of course you can't know
that until you know IT. The Word. You don't know Bible if you can recite
it. That's like knowing ABCs. You have to ACCOUNT for every doctrine you
know; ACCOUNT, for why some other
idea is wrong. You must precisely
know one verse from another; and why
seeming contradictions, aren't. That's
how a surgeon must think. A lawyer. A doctor.
And with the Spirit's power, you are INTENDED TO BE smarter than any of
them. You are intended, to become as
smart as Christ Himself, Eph1:14 and 4:13!
Shocking, huh. But think: anything less than Christ, we recognize as
insufficient. So: can't the same Holy Spirit, Who Made The
Christ Able To Endure The Cross, Make Us Like Him? Sure He can.
His Power, not ours.. so no limits, due to ours.
But you won't even come close
to being as smart as Christ, if you don't use those
eudokian assets. For those
assets, turn you into First Fruits: for
o if you
eat what God proetheto'd,
o then
you will be prothesin, and
o thus
you are proelpikotas.
o Ahead.
First in line. Not
better, but front-line;
while those believers who aren't using the same assets as you have, are far off
doing something else they mistake, as spiritual. Again, why do you think I sound so
smart? Because I use 1John1:9 and thus
God spends His assets on me. No other
reason.
So if you're not using 1John
1:9 like breathing, all your assets lie fallow;
since you lie to God, and to yourself. That's what the
stingy servant did, Luke 19:20. You're
not spiritual, but as 1John1:8 says, you imagine that you are. For people epainon our behavior, our
Christian songs and buzzwords, our spouting Bible verses we really don't
understand.. and then we end up skinny, having fasted from the Word for too
long; we secretly feel God didn't reward
us as we should have been rewarded, for being so faithful. And we end, a 90% casualty, Psalm 90:7, 9 --
though Psalm 90:8 was paid on our behalf, 2000 years ago.
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Yeah, my pastor drilled
the above into the congregation's head until you can't forget it. That was his goal. Now, it's mine. I can't honor God if I'm
spiritually-poor! Honor means you
give something worthy to someone worthy, by that
person's standards. And the Only
Standard, is what? The Way, The Truth
and the Life. Thinking like Him,
1Cor2:16.
So much of what I've had to publish, exposes
long-beloved myths in common Christian playpens. Much of that material comes from
Bible classes I'd heard under my pastor; but I independently found the same
material in Bible, so he can't be blamed for what I write or say. He is blamed, severally: for much of what he said for 53 years, he
also proved from Scripture, and his own words are recorded live; no one need rely on hearsay. Much to the consternation of many in
conservative Christendom, he proved that Christianity is IN the playpen, from
Scripture. He tried to be nice about it,
but a spade is a spade. Integrity
demands honesty, and Justice requires disclosure. So he gave it.
The
Bible is the BIBLE, and it's high time we paid attention to it again, rather than cloistering around fake elites; or, thumping it on our
thighs as we sing Rah-Rah Jesus and argue with the atheists over a 6-day initial
creation, no Bible ever teaches.
Bible
scholarship has been abysmal, starting with the
so-called 'Church Fathers' (of apostasy!) as many scholars even know; yet no
one fesses up to the sheep and corrects the centuries-long errors?? Instead, the errors are taught! We justify silence, based on a
politically-convenient abuse of
'Christian love'. You don't
love people if you don't love God, says 1John. We surely don't love
God, for we make nice with egregious interpretations, mistranslations and false
doctrines, in the name of Christian unity?!
And
that Unity is long broken, precisely because the sheep aren't getting the TOOLS
taught to them, so they can see for THEMSELVES what Bible really says. My pastor taught us the Hebrew
and Greek vocabulary as he went along, using the KJV (and later NASB) as his
base; when the translation was wrong, he
just told us the mss information, corrected the translation, and moved
on. We groaned over the detail, we were
bored with the technicalities; but we didn't condemn, those who made
mistakes; for we ourselves make a
billion mistakes, every day. No
problem. Window broke, you fix it and
move on. So we lost no respect for
Bible teachers and authorities; if
anything, we respect them the more; for when you see their errors, you can
easily appreciate how they were made; we
humans have a rough life. So, respect
for the discipline (and politics!) of academia, heightened.
For if
the sheep aren't told, they WILL find out through the enemy, i.e., from the atheists or other group who knows where bodies are
buried. Then, the sheep turn away from
their denomination or church, in distrust. They weren't trained like we were, to just
accept the mistakes as one learns, since we all make mistakes, no big deal. So, that's why you have a 90% attrition rate
in Christianity, bread from an unholy trinity:
False doctrine is taught; Mistakes aren't corrected;
Pride of protecting past scholars,
matters more than proving Bible's INTEGRITY;
Pride of political position within
one's group, matters more than the primacy of God's WORD.
No
wonder people quit. The Christian doctrinal window is broken in many
places: Replace
The Window. Then, move
on. Mistakes are the norm, and
expected. No shame in making them. But covering them up, pretending the doo-doo is chocolate? That will be exposed at the
Bema. The past scholars who made
mistakes, now living in heaven, will have their reproach REMOVED if we
clean up after them, here in the 21st century. Wouldn't we want the same favor, done for
us? God knows He made the materials
easier than ever, to learn and use! End
Commercial Message.
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First
Clause
Sixth Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
eis
oikonomian tou pleromatos twn kairwn
Estate
Management of Time
Giving Birth
to Eternity,
via
Pregnancy House, Church!
I maintain that a majority of Christian confusion, even
among those who can read Hebrew and Greek, is due to them not 'getting' Bible's
wordplay; not noticing, key rhetorical
styles used to convey vital doctrines we all haggle over. Every verse in Bible employs deft
wordplay, and all the scholars know it exists.
Maybe they are overworked; maybe
it's politics; but for whatever reason,
the wordplay is not taught the sheep;
yet when the sheep read Bible, they seize on what wordplay they find..
but they don't find much. Translations
rarely capture the humor. It's not
Christian to be funny, I guess.
Wordplay is rife in Judaism. Yeah,
they got that keen sense of what's funny, ironic, wry -- from Bible. We Christians, think it's not respectable to
be witty. God must be boring to be
majestic. And so the translations bland
Him out, clothe His naked wit and do all sorts of other things in translation
to make it acceptable to translation committees and their bored-with-Bible-but-I-need-it-as-a-status-symbol
public. Our Puritan background has done
us much harm.
Puritans don't like pregnancy wordplay. Not respectable. Too bad, but that's what this verses is
about, a play on Chronos, the god of Time who ate his kids as soon as they were
born, aka Saturn, aka the Saturnalia festival which was occurring on the very
day the Lord Jesus Christ was born.
First day of Chanukah, to the Jews. Wittily, God told Zerubbabel that would be
the Lord's Birthday, back when only the Foundation was laid, on 24-nearly-25
Chislev, 521 bc. You can read all about it in Haggai 2. So the not-yet-built 2nd Temple, would, 357
years later, become the object of desecration by a demented Antiochus IV, who
thought he was Epiphanes. So the
lights went out, in the Temple. So the
lights went on 2300 days after Anti-baby ran over Egypt, and the Temple
instituted the Feast of Dedication, Chanuk=Enoch, to herald the Lord's Birth,
164 years later to the day. Paul uses
this fact, to craft the syllables for the eudokian anaphora.
The Catholics, maybe got it right by accident.
You have to know all that background, to get this verse. Christ was born to SAVE TIME from
ending. You have to know the Doctrine of
Time (summarized on pages 3 and 4 of this document), to understand this
verse. Church is the BRIDGE to complete
Time. Messiah's Time. Owed Him from the Exodus forward. Recorded by Moses. Updated by Isaiah 53 and Daniel 9. Clearly discernible in their meter. And totally unknown, if you don't know the
meter. Worse, if you know the Jews still
have this 'thing' about the times, you won't understand they get it from Bible,
which Paul here invokes.
The 'Estate Management of Time': oikonomian=estate management, twn kairwn=Time; in plural,
because there are specific epochs in God's Management of Time. First epoch,
Adamic, ending with Abraham. Second of the kairoi was Jewish Time, from Abraham
to Christ. Who Came and Left the
Building, Cornerstone Rejected, but He paid for a
yet-to-be-born Bride, Church,
having contracted to BUY her in Matthew 16:18, ratifying it to Father's
Discretion, John 17:17-23. That's why we're here, and that's why this
verse is here.
It becomes an Asset of Church, this
Bridging Role He legated to us, which Father 'manages'. It becomes an asset, for those
who use the first five, are On Trial as Christ was; if they successfully pass the Endurance Test,
they will be crowned kings like Paul was, in 2Tim4:6-8. And they will end up ruling their Isaiah
53:12 'atsumim' portion of Church.. forever.
During the Millennium, these same kings will each rule over one or more
Gentile nations on earth. Whether the
Church believers will rule with them, I can't yet prove. My pastor speculated that the rest of Church
will just be looking on.
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So let's get into the Greek here, because your average
joe-blow preterist would balk at this interpretation. That, because he doesn't know
Bible's doctrine of Time, so he doesn't know how to cross-reference the Greek
here, to learn it. And, he has almost no
respect, even if knowledge, about the cultural allusions of Paul, since after
all the Greeks were pagan. Huff.
Paul isn't writing to pagans, but
Christians. They are Greeks, so why not
use cultural concepts they know, to illustrate Bible truths? If I use a stoplight to
illustrate the Gospel as a GO only
if you believe, and stop if you
never believe, that's a helpful thing to do.
So, that's what Paul does: use ideas the Greeks understood. And we know what those ideas, were. So we too can know exactly, apprehending
the very thought of the writer, the goal of hermeneutics.
So, the Greek:
εἰς
οἰκονομίαν
τοῦ
πληρώματος
τῶν καιρῶν 252 G
To Result in the 'Filling-Up of Times'
Dispensation;
Now, word by word:
εἰς Preposition of Destination. Here, the 'destination' of TIME itself. Hence translated like a verb, in English. In Drama Greek you drop verbs and substitute
nouns, participles, and prepositions with verbal force. That's what Paul does throughout this
passage.
οἰκονομίαν Term means 'estate
management', idea of a PROPERTY you own, including all the personal goods
within it. God owns everything, and TIME
is something God owns. So to merely
truncate the meaning to 'administration' is both vague and misleading. 'Dispensation' in English comes closer to the
idea here: idea of something you own that you DISPENSE, use, administer
according to your own authority, since you own it. Here, Time.
τοῦ
πληρώματος Greek pleroma means a
fullness of 'cargo', whether in a ship or in a woman. It is a favorite term of Paul's to signify birthing, on the verge of full-term delivery.
Sexual connotation is redolent in Greek usage, especially with respect
to time and maturation. For the Greek god Chronos would
eat his children as they were born (concept of time
eating away). Translators
and lexicographers are chary of explaining this kind of 'fullness'; but you
won't appreciate the Bible's use of the term if you don't know its cultural
meaning. Consider, Paul is writing to
Greeks who well know and would smile at this term. They would immediately value what Paul meant.
So literally, Paul writes 'resulting in the Dispensation of the Pregnancy Fullness of Time'. It makes for awkward
English, and had more syllables than he used in Greek.
τῶν
καιρῶν literally, 'of the times', but you have to
know that kairos means an epoch
of time which
has a particular covenant attached to it, when used in the
Bible. So for the plural, the best
English translation would be 'Dispensations';
but that would be repetitive, and I didn't have enough Greek
syllables. The genitive is descriptive,
acting like an adjective for oikonomia.
The phrase thus means that this Dispensation
Of Church Completes The Estate Management Of Time. The reader who is already familiar
with the Old Testament promises to Israel, therefore, would realize that this
phrase signifies several things:
o Church is the Time Bridge back to the Completion of the Time
Promise to Israel, now vested in Christ, just as Moses had written, back in
Psalm 90.
o That's why Paul also benchmarks
syllable 252
in Psalm 90, which
points to Psalm 90:13, which asked, 'Return Oh Lord, How Long?' Thus Moses' prayer is answered by Church. For Church thus bridges back to the promised
Tribulation, hence the Promised Millennium, which Moses wrote about, reserving
the Time in the first 84 syllables of Psalm 90.
o We Church have an Inheritance IN this
Completion (q.v.,
verse 11), so our 1Cor3 awards will relate to how our growth was used to
achieve this goal;
o Satan is tactically defeated in the Angelic Conflict.
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That last point about Satan's
defeat is variantly understood in Christendom. Nearly
every denomination realizes we Church are collectively a testimony in some
vague way, which proves God right and Satan wrong. There is a lot of variance in the explanations
given for this 'testimony'. Point is, we
know at least something about it. Since
Satanology isn't well defined in Christendom, you'll have to analyze or mull
over the points below. Or, come up with
your own.
I spent about
10 years writing up an analysis of God versus Satan, trying to see the Big
Picture from Adam forward, about this Trial.
The writeup begins in http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan1.htm
, and that page also functions as an overview of the Trial Issues. The rest of its links (which run maybe 1500 printed pages), trace the history from what I understand in
the Bible, based largely also on what my pastor taught about the Conflict for
53 years. I was trying to make sense of
the data we have, and what he taught. So
if you're interested, you can skim through or read that material.
The upshot, is
this:
o Satan claims God is unfair to give creatures (then, only the angels), free will to fail. Especially, because God knows they will
fail. So they should not suffer
penalty for using what God gave them.
o Satan and his allies thus rebelled. So although man was going to be created
anyway for the angels to rule (that is a conclusion), now man's creation is to demonstrate why Satan is wrong, and THE MAN will pay for human sins (I maintain angelic sins were also paid for,
based on the lower-than language in Hebrews 2, but that topic is not
germane now).
o Even so, even with His Success at the Cross (theme of Hebrews 2), thus defeating Satan and being awarded the other kingship of psalm 110, the
question remains -- where's
the Kingdom to go with that Crown?
o Bride of Christ?
Well then a Bride must be
worthy of Her Husband.
o So, we get the same Trial terms as He had, sans actually paying for mankind's sins
on the Cross, since He already did that.
o So we get the same spiritual assets, and the same responsibility (again, short of paying for all sins, since He did that).
My pastor taught the above bullets
extensively over his ministry. Book of Hebrews is not the only
place where you can see those points validated, but it's a great summary book
on the topic. So far as I can tell, no
one but my pastor ever covered the topic (especially from Hebrews) as
comprehensively. So I refer you to his
classes in Ephesians, Hebrews and Spiritual Dynamics, all live recordings
available from http://www.rbthieme.org.
Second Clause Here a literal
translation is better, to show the full meaning of this very long Greek word.
Third Clause Paul uses ta panta
as a bullet point. Sweeping language,
and clever double-entendre on the nickname for Christ as The All Things.
Fourth Clause Same idea as in third
clause, abbreviated to 'ta'. It's
considered good Greek rhetoric to shorten expressions to their (nee: definite)
articles whenever possible, especially in dramatic repetition, as here.
Fifth Clause Same idea as in
fourth clause.
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First clause: the kai in
Greek is an 'emphatic kai'. I
should redden,
bold and make kai
16
points high. This is a most climactic verse, as you'll soon see. It should be impossible to top verse 10's
drama, but Paul does! Impossible not
to know God Wrote This Book! I
shouldn't be allowed to see this and live.
Preview of coming
distractions: YOU, dear believer (and me too), INHERIT Christ's
OWN Victory Over Satan
(verse 10),
which wraps up all history. We could
know that from Hebrews 1 and 2, from Psalm 110: for Christ's Kingship invoked
to create Church in Matt16:18 PREDATED His Jewish Kingship: hence
we even exist. Okay, but INHERIT alongside
Him? Oh yeah! That's why Eph4:13 reads as it does! We should all be executed at once, for not
using Our Divine Assets!
Temple
Shewbread, prothesin
the second keyword in our third
nested anaphora,
Second
clause, prothesin, alters how you read
Ephesians. This is the second keyword in the third
anaphora Paul creates in the passage, which here we'll call Temple Trio. This
is another specialized word. Paul isn't
talking about any ol' plan, but rather, Temple Shewbread. It's the second of three Temple keywords Paul
uses to draw analogy. See also Verse 9's and Verse 12's notes on proetheto and proelpikotas,
respectively.
This Trio proves Juridical
Consistency With Prior Covenants.
Again, Paul stresses Church has her own covenant, but that brings up the
issue of Whether It's Fair To Make The
Change. So, he wants to show not
only that it's fair, but consistent
with what Israel had; again, to head off
jealousy over the Jews. You know how
jealous or puffy we humans get when someone has something different from 'our'
stuff.
And frankly, that's
what shows up here, a deliberate coverup of what translators know, is a JEWISH
term.
[I'm sure they decided, "well, the sheep
won't understand this, and it will take too long to explain": to which I say, 'Balderdash!' If God uses a special word, it should be
specially translated, and then TAUGHT to the sheep. My pastor taught it; we the congregation didn't vomit (well, some
did). We learned. And yeah, for awhile it was boring to study
the entire Levitical-sacrifice structure, just to know what this one word
meant. But worth it! Why do you think I sound so
competent? Why do you think I have so
much confidence in the Word? Because I
UNDERSTAND it! Confidence comes from
understanding SCRIPTURE, not from patting people on the head, or rah-rah Jesus
songs.]
So to
mistranslate prothesin as merely 'plan' or 'purpose', masks Paul's
tracking of TEMPLE, both in
his meter, and in the text. For Paul
points to Daniel 9 as Precedental job for CHURCH. So let's review what that means.
The Temple was Bible in
Architecture,
As Temple Portrayed the Promised Word-Becomes-Flesh.
90% of
what Christians 'know' about Bible is flashcard knowledge. They don't know why there was a Temple; they grow up hearing of it as holy, good;
and they unthinkingly accept what they hear, as they only care about
fitting-in. So they never know what
it represented. Neither do the Jews. They piously and daily bob at the Wailing
Wall, see it live on the Kotel webcam, from Aish.com! So much tsav
l'tsav. So very very much lev, lo-lev. It's heartbreaking.
Accordingly,
for centuries the hoi pouloi in every religion on the planet rotely
engage in pet rituals, the sacred buildings obsessively venerated by all,
visited, photographed; yet what do those buildings mean? People don't know. To them, the buildings are holy, and you're
holy too if you visit them. Bob
and nod, say you've been there, it's all a status symbol of cheap
substitutes. You gaze-to-praise
a building, to take the place of, Building in the Word. Bob at a Wall, for Scripture is a Wall
to you: sounds to recite at church,
shul, bar/bat mitzvah, claim you've done mitzwot; chant the Kaddish, give luck to the
dead. All in lieu of, Learning What
Word the Temple Depicted. Yeah, ho
logos einai nekros, in you.
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By
contrast, the dead-but-expensive stones of God's Jerusalem Temple, depicted
Live Word-To-Come. Bible's 'Temple'
means 'God Dwelling With Us': promise of
savior to come. Every feature was
a metaphor of something ABOUT Him.
My pastor stressed that fact a thousand times, when exegeting Temple OT
passages.
o
2Samuel 7, David had finished conquering Jerusalem,
built himself a nice palace to live in.. but God was 'living' in a tent! That upset David.
o
So,
he asked the prophet Nathan about it.
Get the witty setup, here: Nathan was one of David's younger sons
through Bathsheba, hence the progenitor of Mary.
o
So,
God gave Nathan one of the wittiest Divine Promises in Scripture: Oy gevalt! (Look-how-I'm-qvetching-but-really-pleased-You-CARE): What house can contain Me? Ho-kay, I give up, you can make a Temple for
Me. And by the way, I'll make a House of
Sons for you FOREVER, such a mensch!
o
God's
Wit is hysterical, even in translation!
Go read 2Sam7!
o
I hope you know, huge chunks of Bible are on
Temple Architecture in extreme detail, i.e., 1Chron24 et seq., all of Ezekiel
after Chapter 39. So here is this God
Who loudly 'protests' at HAVING a house, yet is positively anal ABOUT that
House, even as He was about Tent-of-Meeting specs with Moses!
o
Upon
which Temple The Christ, a later son of Nathan -- played, in John
14: I go to Build a House for you. House of Sons. He
Who Had No Descendants Will Birth All, Isaiah 53:8, 12, 54:1!
The
wit never ends, in God's Word. How can
you not fall in love with it? With
Him??
But
until He came, how to depict Him? Since
Bible was serially formed?
Architecture, baby. Jacob's sons were
construction slaves under Pharaoh (not agricultural slaves, duh). 400 years of
building prowess, now used.
So, pending completion of Canon in writing, you
learned the same material by the densely-packed metaphors in each article and
ritual of the Temple and its worship.
Temple stood for Temple to Come in the Flesh, as a result of Whom
you'd have the Law written in your hearts, Jeremiah 3:16 compared to
Jer31:31-34. Because, until He Took on
Humanity, there was No Soul To be The CopyBook. [Petrine term hupogrammos
(1Pet2:21), a tablet kids used to learn
how to write letters.] You couldn't yet become a COPY of Him.
Meanwhile,
Temple and its allied activities were like daily life; you'd recall the sacred meanings, while
you did your secular duties. So
you'd 'copy' those meanings in your head, thus finally enjoying the
day's banalities and frustrations. Yeah,
God uses low things, like flying ovens, to
make covenants! [Genesis
15:17. Just imagine, the next time Abraham used an oven or peed, he'd recall
what God meant! My pastor reminded us of
that, often.]
Book of
Hebrews shows how this Temple To Come, Finished His Task; so now His Thinking
can be built in you, just as promised.
That theme elaborates on what Paul says, here. So let's notice:
o
Temple depicts the Body of Christ en toto. Every feature.
o
Lampstands symbolize the Doctrine (Light) in Him, the
Holy Spirit enabling Him.
o
Sacrifices memorialize what HE would do to please
Father and thus pay for our sins.
o
So the Temple Shewbread signify Him
'harvested';
and at the same time, believers 'harvested' due to Him. Bread of the Presence. Wheat was grown, harvested, prepared; and now, baked for God to
'eat'. It takes THINKING, to make
bread. Our sins were Paid by the Bread
of Heaven THINKING on the Cross, Isaiah 53:11.
o
So, He had to be Prepared. So, you have to prepare FOR Him. preparation, Greek paraskeué,
comes from 'container', Greek word skenos. In classical Greek, it denotes the advance
work often related to a major public event.
So it came to have a sacred-function meaning; and in Jesus' day, was a
nickname for how you 'prepared' for the sabbath; especially, the Passover sabbath.
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o For
the Preparation is Christ [Matt. 27:62; Mk.
15:42; Lk. 23:54; Jn. 19:14, 31, 42] .
Preparation
for Life With God.
o Passover-eve
readiness; sabbath-eve readiness. Temple Bread prepared DAILY 'from sabbath
to sabbath', Lev 24:8, so there was a plan
to make it, bake it, present it fresh and hot. [Bread is a fragile nightmare; that's why flatbread became popular, and
noodles. Shewbread was raised, not
flat; Leviticus 23:9-21, hence 24:5-7
injunction. It must be grown, ground,
leavened just right. Takes all day, as
you WAIT for the yeast to raise the dough. Talmudic rabbis err to claim it
weekly flatbread; for it = THE LIVING
(warm) BOUGHT BY CHRIST. Just like
morning and evening offerings. You baked
it even on the SABBATH, when normally it wasn't legal to bake.]
o
Sacrifices and Bread and Light were
SET BEFORE (proetheto) in TEMPLE,
an Offering for FATHER to 'eat', as it were. Idea of Living for His Pleasure. So prothesin, Shewbread =
Nature, Spiritual Life of Christ-to-Come, how the 'smell' of His Thinking
Pleases Father, Isaiah 53:11; resulting,
in our own 'presentation' before Father.
Forever.
Third
clause, tou ta panta. Paul plays with that phrase, here: The
All Things: Him. The Everything.
So I added, 'Through Whom' to make that dual entendre, clearer. Christ is THE TEMPLE SHEWBREAD. We are to be made into Him. Get the pun?
[Check out the awesome Greek double-entendres
in these verses: Rom. 8:32; 11:36; 1 Co. 2:15; 8:6; 12:6, 19; 15:27f; Gal.
3:22; Eph. 1:10f, 23; 3:9; 4:10, 15; Phil. 3:8, 21; Col. 1:16f, 20; 3:8, 11; 1
Tim. 6:13. So I privately call Him Ta
Panta. Sometimes I forget myself in
videos and say Ta Panta, too!]
last 'bookend' in the eudokian portfolio
The
Delight of His Will and Purpose,
ten boulen tou thelematos autou:
Father ordains Church to Complete Time,
Make Her into the Very Glory of Christ
We
got a three-way anaphoric nest going on here; it all began back in verse 5, in
the '91' depicting Father's Eternity-Past Decree about Christ, updated with the
clauses Father ordained for Church. Because,
CHRIST is The Election: we are only elected IN Him, not of ourselves. [Maybe one day Calvinists will learn how to
read prepositions in Ephesians 1:4, etc. ]
Gist: The Good Will and
Pleasure of Father is to make us sons in Christ (verse 5), Who
is the 77th Son, dying at age 33; Who thereby became the Asset Portfolio we can
'eat', now that He is revealed (verse 9); as a
result of which we become Temple Shewbread and Firstfruits, like Him (verses 11+12). The
summed eudokian meter is 231
syllables = Daniel 9:24-27, God's Reply to Daniel. So this anaphora updates that reply
with God's Will and Purpose for Church, as 'inside' what God told Daniel: hence
the witty hidden-from-eternity-past musterion language of Pleromatos
Pregnant Time, a theme Paul loves repeating in Romans 8, Galatians 4, and
of course in Ephesians.
This
is the final eudokian anaphoric bookend.
Paul now completes his reference to Isaiah 53:11, LXX, which uses bouletai,
twice: first re Father, second re
Son. Paul ropes
both prior 'bookends' into one concatenated unity, here: Purpose Completed,
Isa54:1, and Chapter 55, fulfilled. [The anaphora began
with 3rd +4th clauses in v.5; next 'bookend' was 2nd +3rd clauses in v.9.]
The purpose of the eudokian
anaphora is to classify the 'paragraphs' of our ASSETS IN CHRIST. By using anaphora, especially in a nest, Paul vividly illustrates how
our assets are related to the other anaphora he nested in this
passage.
So
let's look at them. This eudokian anaphora is the first of three
sets of anaphoric constructions. It
starts first. The other two begin inside this
one; they both terminate, outside
it. BIRTH.
Meter of the eudokian 'nest', starting
at its verse 5, the 106th syllable: 28 + 14 + 28
+ 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 12 = 215, but
1st 'pair' of bookends are between (years)
syllables 105 and 231 = 126, sum of 70+56, 18 sevens or 42
threes!
2nd 'pair', overlapping
between syllables 215 and 231, ending at 320, 15 sevens, 35 threes!
33 sevens! The Lord's Age
when He died!